Holiday Sangria - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    1 (750 milliliter) bottle Rioja red wine
    1/4 cup brandy
    3 (1.5 fluid ounce) jiggers orange-flavored liqueur (such as Cointreau(R))
    1 large orange
    1 large grapefruit
    1 large lemon
    1 clove pomander
    ice cubes
    1 1/2 cups lemon seltzer water
    2 limes, sliced
Preparation
    Pour Rioja into a large pitcher. Add brandy and orange liqueur. Cut orange, grapefruit, and lemon into wedges. Squeeze juice into the pitcher. Toss in fruit with rinds. Refrigerate until flavors combine, 8 hours to overnight.
    Add pomander to the sangria several hours before serving.
    Strain liquid into chilled glasses of ice. Top with a splash of seltzer. Garnish with lime slices.

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