ViVa Spanish SaNgRiA!!!

My dad prepares sangria adding brandy, Seco Herrerano or Carta Vieja (white rum from Panama), also you can add soda and so on. Use a simple but good wine. Today you can even find sangria with white wine! but is not the same:-)

Ingredients: (my recipe)
1 Litre of red wine
2 oranges (juice - "naranjas de zumo")
5 tablespoon full of sugar (depending on taste but need to be sort of sweet)
2 pieces of lemon
mix of fruits (example:red grapes, 2 red apples, 2 peaches, 2 oranges)
soda (water)

Preparation:

Sangria is a refreshing drink so you can use simple red wine. Use table wine! Put the wine into a jug, add the sugar, and stir until it is properly dissolved.

Squeeze the two oranges, and add the juice to the jug. Wash the other fruits, peel them and cut them in cubes (1 oranges, 1 apples, 1 peach, grapes, etc) and reserve the other fruits without peeling apart. Put peeled fruits to the wine and juice, any alcohol you wish, sugar and soda and marinate them for few hours or overnight in the fridge. Then take them out few hours later or the next day. If it is not Summer, you can use any other in-season fruit.

Sangría should always be served chilled. If you want to reduce the alchohol concentration, add icecubes and slices of lemon. If you want to increase the alcohol concentration, add a small amount of cognac or rum. Before you serve, take out the "old fruits" and add the new ones that you put apart before. They need to be ready in cubes little bit before serving so you can add them to the jug and they are fresh. Serve in nice glass wine (you can put the glass in the fridge too, is nice cold!) and can add a slice of lemon or orange in the border of the glass or half slice in the middle of the drink or whatever your creativity gives you...for decoration. Enjoy!

(This part taken from www.euroresidentes.com):

Use quality ingredients:

Use wines from Jumilla, Alicante or Valencia. They are usually quite cheap, and are the best choice because of their colour, alcohol content and bouquet.

Tips/Secrets: Make it nice and fruity. Apples, pears, peach, kiwis, bananas, tropical fruits. You can experiment byadding more or less drinks such as cognac, rum, gin and vodka, or you can dilute the alcohol content by adding more orange juice and ice cubes. Some sangria fans like to add drinks such as a can of 7-up, or fizzy orange or lemon. And finally: if you do experiment and find the result irresistable, make sure you have a bed handy, have a nice siesta, and don't drive, even if you feel up to it.