Red Sangria Recipe

You will be sipping this Red Sangria all summer long! It’s perfectly sweet, fruity and delightful on a hot summer day. The perfect blend of red wine, brandy, orange juice, triple sec plus fruit. It’s perfect for summer parties and having friends over.

This perfectly sweet, delicious, and easy sangria recipe is loaded with lemons and strawberries. It’s perfect for a hot summer day! Invite all your friends over and whip up this sangria before they come so you can enjoy it with them!

Sangria is kind of my jam. It seems that all of you love it too! You guys adore this peach rose sangria, my strawberry limeade sangria recipe and this blueberry sangria too! Oh, and at Christmas I love to make red Christmas sangria!

I’ll admit I’m not real picky when it comes to my sangria recipes, but the first one I ever tried was that blueberry sangria and it holds a specially spot in my heart. But, this traditional sangria recipe might knock it out of it’s #1 spot! It’s seriously the best! Slightly sweet, loaded with fresh fruit, and refreshing on a long hot summer day!

What is Sangria?

Sangria originates from Spain and is an mixed alcoholic drink. There are two different main categories of sangria, either red sangria or white sangria. Red Sangria is made with red wine and white sangria is made with white wine.

In addition to wine, sangria can contain ingredients like fruit juice, sweetener, sparkling water, fruit and flavored liqueurs depending on the variation you are making.

Why You’ll Love this Red Sangria Recipe

• Need a way to save some prep time on party day? Then you’ll love learning how to make sangria because it’s the perfect make-ahead cocktail!
• You can easily and adapt and change this recipe so that it fits your preferences, or works better with whatever you have on hand.
• This recipe is a great way to brighten up an inexpensive wine. It’s really easy to make traditional red sangria on a budget since the fruit adds tons of flavor to any base wine you choose!

Ingredients for this Easy Red Sangria Recipe

• Alcohol – For the red wine, I recommend using Garnacha or Pinot Noir. You will also need brandy, we used E & J Brandy, and triple sec.
• Orange juice – For an extra fresh flavor, use fresh squeezed orange juice. But store-bought is perfectly fine too! I do recommend you use pulp-free juice.
• Sweetener – We used white sugar but you can also use brown sugar if you prefer. Make your sangria sweeter or less sweet by adjusting the sweetener to your preference. You could also use maple syrup or honey for a natural alternative.
• Fruit – We used strawberries and lemons, but you could also use apples, oranges, cherries, blueberries, cranberries and more!
• Bubbles – This is an optional ingredient, but I like the fizz that it adds. Just top off your glasses with a light Lemon Lime Soda or sparkling water.

What Kind of Alcohol is a Red Sangria Recipe?

This red sangria recipe is essentially a fruity wine with a kick. There is typically a hard alcohol added to wine and fruit, and a lot of time there is a fruity flavored alcohol too!

Garnacha (also called Grenache) or Pinot Noir is most commonly used in red sangria. You don’t need an expensive wine either! The fruity flavors meld wonderfully with anything, and you don’t want your wine to overpower it anyway.

Mix in a hard alcohol too! This recipe uses brandy but you can also use rum, gin or vodka. I also used Triple Sec which is a liquor with an orange flavor!

How to Make Red Sangria

1. First in a large pitcher add wine, brandy, orange juice, triple sec and sugar. Stir the ingredient together until well combined and sugar is dissolved.
2. After that, add lemons and chopped strawberries and stir well. Put your traditional red sangria in the fridge for at least 30 minutes, or up to 8 hours.
3. Then add your lemon lime soda just before serving. This is optional — it’s great without it too!

How long does red sangria last?

Sangria is usually best enjoyed within 48 hours of mixing, in fact it’s recommended that you mix it up ahead of time because the longer the fruit sits in the sangria, the more it enhances the flavor.

After mixing store in the refrigerator for up to 48 hours. The fruit will go bad before the wine does so keep an eye on the fruit.

Red Wine Sangria Recipe Variations

• The fruit is very flexible. You can throw anything from lemons, strawberries, oranges, pineapple, pears and peaches into it depending on what you have in your fridge!
• Usually a red wine is used, but you could do white or rosé to mix it up.
• If Brandy isn’t your choice of hard liquor you can use cognac, gin etc.
• This is perfect for using up leftover fruit you have. Any fresh or frozen fruit is great in it. We prefer citrust, berries, grapes, pineapple etc.

What red wine is best for sangria?

A dry, fruit red wine is the best option for red sangria. It should have good acidity and low tannins. Recommended red wines include Grenache (Garnacha), Merlot and Tempranillo, Pinot Noir and Zinfandel.

Does sangria need brandy?

This red sangria recipe calls for brandy, but you can make it without it and it will still taste great. If you want to substitute another liqueur great options would be Triple Sec or Grand Marnier.

What nationality is sangria?

Sangria originates from Spain and dates back to 200 B.C. when the Romans began naming the wines and wine-based punches sangria. This drink become popular in Europe more than a century later. The Europeans made it with French Bordeaux as the boozy base.

More Summertime Drink Recipes!

• With only three ingredients you’ll be mixing up Sparkling Strawberry Lemonade all summer long! It’s perfect for a non-alcoholic summer drink at parties.
• If you love fruity drinks make this easy Spiked Watermelon Lemonade. A frozen lemonade drink that’s so refreshing!
• Need more large batch party cocktails? Try Pink Moscato Lemonade. Slightly fruity, sweet and bubbly!
• Grab a Mai Tai this summer! It’s a delicious, refreshing Tiki cocktail that’s perfect for sipping on.

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