Hey and welcome to Drinks Tube. My name is Amelia Singer and i'm in this amazing, amazing
restaurant Iberica to make what I think is possibly the most exciting refreshing drinks
of the summer, red wine sangria. You think sangria is just a way to get rid of cheap
red wine but it isn't. It can actually be quite a sophisticated, summertime drink and
you can pretty much use whatever you have lying around the house. I think you'll enjoy it.
So the ingredient for today sangria are apples, oranges and lemons, cranberries, cinnamon
don't use too much though otherwise it will be like mulled wine. Orange juice to freshen
things up, some rum, peach liqueur, red wine preferably from spain, demerara sugar and
for a bit of dilution just use some lemonade. Stage one, you gotta get your fruit on. You've
got apples, half an apple here. Oranges, half an orange, and half a lemon and just for colour
we're gonna have a spoonful of cranberries. So now i'm going to muddle. The reason why
i'm doing this, is just to properly blend everything together. This jug is gonna be
about the right size for four people. So once you've muddled, you're gonna need to sweeten
things up with a bit of demerara sugar, you need two tablespoonfuls.
for spice. I'm gonna be using some cinnamon. Only about a quarter of a teaspoon. After
the spice, then comes your spirits. So i'm gonna be using a dark rum today, because it's
sweetly spiced, a little bit of toastiness, a little bit of oak and will also give wonderful
body to the sangria, so you want fifteen ml of that. So next, we're gonna have an elegant
peach liqueur. Which will give extra finesse to the sangria as well as intensifying and
complementing those other fruit flavours. Like the rum it'll be fifteen ml going in.
So now it's time that classic ingredient the orange juice, which just really helps emphasise
all those other fruit flavours and keeps this drink wonderfully refreshing on those hot
summer days. Use a hundred and twenty five ml of orange juice.
So now it's time for the stirring because you want to dissolve the sugar into this mixture and really just blend
and mix all of the absolutely delicious, generally fun flavours in this jug. So now for the famous
ingredient for sangria, the red spanish wine, you can use riocia, any type of spanish red
wine as long as it's full bodied, fruity and dry. For a jug of this size, i'm going to
be using half a bottle of red wine. So now i'm just going to be measuring out half a
bottle. This is half a bottle of wine. Then you just pour it in, hopefully without spilling.
It's now really starting to come together as a classic sangria should. There's lots
of berry flavours going on, as well as the aromas of oranges and apples and zippy zest
and that wonderful sweet spicy cinnamon, it's also coming through. So then, the bubbles,
the sparkle. Which comes by the lemonade. So I'm gonna be adding, just over half a bottle
of the lemonade, that's about a hundred a twenty five ml and as I say you put it in
at the end otherwise the bubbles will just die. So i'm just adding in a little bit more
ice, make sure it's refreshingly chilled and there you have it a classic red wine sangria.
Make sure you have that wooden spoon to kind of control the flow of the sangria but also
to allow you to scoop out some of the delicious fruit inside and there you have it. I'm excited.
Mmm, it's so concentrated in fruit and all those berries and apples and oranges, however
this is then supported with a wonderful really satisfying body and spicy smooth texture.
It's awesome. Mmm, i'm really excited about sangria, you should be excited about sangria.
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