Rosé Sangria.
I’m feeling it guys.
SPRING.
It’s finally here. Yesterday it even poured for the entire ride home from Max’s swim lesson and it felt like that springy-summer rain, where it rains so hard and so fast and the humidity is thick and it smells like rainy flowers outside?! Yeah, that.
It happened and I loved it and wanted to dance in it like a child.
To celebrate, I made us a cocktail!
Errr, not really. But let’s pretend.
The truth is that I wanted to share something with you today that could possibly go with your tacos tonight (!!!) AND make a great cocktail for mother’s day festivities this weekend. Something that fit the bill for the next four days, fit the season and made us all incredibly giddy.
At least, something to make me incredibly giddy. This is it!!
I’m super psyched for rosé season. I don’t care how basic it is, and good thing that doesn’t even matter because everything I love is basic. The closest liquor store has barely carried ANY rosé over the last two years. I mean, I asked them for a bottle last summer and they pointed me towards the white zinfandel. Um, hi, but no.
Later on in the year, they started carrying some version but it was probably only $8, not that it really means anything but, you know. It was still a bit sweet. And I only went there on the fly, when I was out of time, entertaining, or in desperate need of a bottle for a party.
Sooooo – imagine my surprise when they had a sliiiightly nicer rosé on the shelf last week. High fives all around. I grabbed a few bottles and we loved it so much.
Then I found myself with a leftover half-a-bottle (how? why? who? why? again why?) and knew exactly what was going to go down.
Fruit + wine is my love language. Multiplied by chocolate. Divided by pizza. Peanut butter covered spoons dipped in chocolate chips are the square root of my heart.
See!! I can totally do math. Go tell Eddie.
Obviously, you can make this your own and I’d love you to do so. It’s why I enjoy sharing recipes so much. Add whatever fruit you have on hand, switch up the seltzer flavor, add some fresh mint. I wrote it below exactly as I made it, but a few tweaks on your favorites will only make you love it more. Like peaches?! Cannot even wait for them to arrive.
Make it yours… and then drink it down.
Rosé Sangria
Ingredients
- 1 (750mL) bottle dry rosé
- 1/2 cup brandy
- 1/2 cup grand marnier
- 2 cups club soda, whatever flavor you’d like
- 2 cara cara oranges, sliced
- 2 limes, sliced
- 1 cup of melon balls, cantaloupe and watermelon
- 1 pint of strawberries, sliced
- 2 tablespoons orange sugar, for rimming the glass
Instructions
- Add all of your fruit to the bottom of a pitcher. Pour your wine, brandy, grand marnier and club soda over top and stir. This tastes great when it sits in the fridge and “marinates” for a bit. To serve, rim a glass with some orange sugar, add ice and some of the boozy fruit and pour the sangria over top. YES.
- Note: to make the orange sugar, I took 2 tablespoons sugar and toss it with the zest from 1/2 a cara cara orange.
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I appreciate you so much!
God I love this season.
80 Comments on “Rosé Sangria.”
This looks SO perfect for spring! And cara cara oranges – my favorite! They’re just so good. Happy spring!
we live on cara cara oranges too!! max would probably eat 3-4 a day if he could!
I love where your heads at Girl! This is so the perfect thing to complete anyone’s fiesta today! YUM!
I thought I was feeling it too but man, you have me dancing and jumping for spring with this drink!! So yummy!
Pink drinks always taste better: FACT.
for sure.
LOVE! How perfect for my 21st birthday today, how did you know?! ;) Thank you so much for sharing!
ah happy birthday! so exciting and have so much fun!
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I love this post for so many reasons! Fruit, rosé, booze, silly-springy-happy writing. Love love love!
Imagine sipping this sangria by the pool, of course decked in the cutest bikini and large rimmed hat … ahhhh summmaaa time!!
I love your picture asthethic with the ice on the counter top and crumbs, a kind of messy vibe, it’s such a real kitchen!
I can’t help think of the clean up though!! Great post, can’t wait to try the sangria!!!
The PA wine shopping experience is so sad, isn’t it? The fine wine & good spirits store near me (in Wexford) actually has a decent selection of rose (I know that’s far from you, but maybe there’s hope?) I was all about the Whispering Angel rose last year. Soooooooo good :)
YES! This looks PHENOMENAL! I’m with you. Don’t care how basic it is to love rose. I LOVE IT STILL!
Kiersten
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OMG I need this like, right. now. Only about 5 more weeks until I can finally indulge (as long as baby boy doesn’t decide to come late!!) :)
I LOVE all the stuff in here, the more things in sangria, the better! Also, rose may be basic, but I don’t even care either, it’s so freaking GOOD!
I am sooo making this!!! But … I want to serve it in that gorgeous pitcher! Where did you find it??? It’s absolutely beautiful!
I think sangria is just one of the prettiest drinks out there. I love all of the yummy fruit floating around in it!
Kari
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I’m making something very similar to this for our work party right now! Looks so good!
Gurrrrrrl……..I can’t even begin to tell you how much this giggle juice is on point! #roseforlife
Just looking at it makes me thirsty!
I LOVE these photos!!! <3
I was already loving everything about this, but then I read “orange sugar” and was even more sold. What an amazing idea! Plus, your math is my kind of math :). If anyone needs me, I’ll be over here sipping on this and multiplying everything by chocolate…
I have been wanting rose only and all the time lately, and now I need to fill it up with fruit and seltzer!! This looks so good!!!
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I loooove sangria and rosé! Too bad I have the same problem of my local liquor store having a really poor stock of rosé. But maybe I’ll manage to hunt down a bottle for making this sweet thing! xx
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These look so good! I think using the melon baller to add one or two balls of orange or lime sherbet would be awesome, too (memories of childhood summer evenings). But then again, my motto is always “Make it sweeter!”
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made this tonight – so good! my husband was leery when he found out i wasn’t making a sangria with red wine, but it’s all gone now, so it turned out he liked it after all ;) yours looked a tad prettier than mine turned out though- but the taste was there, so that is what counts, right?!
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Sounds like this summer gonna be cool with rose sangria :)
I made this for mothers day brunch and it was a huge hit!!! So gorgeous and delicious!! I’ll be making this sangria again soon :)
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