Fresh Strawberry Sangria

Fresh Strawberry Sangria alongside white or rose vino ... total Spring {and Summer} refreshment!

the other twenty-four hours was similar Christmas inwards May for me Fresh Strawberry Sangria

Thanks to the dainty folks at Staples, the other twenty-four hours was similar Christmas inwards May for me ... as well as the vino to brand this fabulous Fresh Strawberry Sangria was at just the perfect temperature! What?? You're in all probability thinking, "What does Staples the purpose provide shop pick out to practise alongside the temperature of your wine?" ... right?

Well, within this actually large box that arrived at my door footstep a few days agone ...

... was a 16-bottle vino refrigerator! That's right, Staples sent me this vino fridge to review ... as well as I honey it. They sell several selections of vino refrigerators, who knew?

One of the reasons I honey this vino fridge is that it chills your vino to simply the perfect temperature ... as well as I am 1 of those people who's quite picky virtually the temperature of her wine. The 'regular' fridge typically makes it likewise mutual depression temperature ... therefore you'll unremarkably encounter me cradling my freshly-poured drinking glass of vino inwards the palms of my hands for a niggling flake earlier I imbibe it. This brings the temperature upward a bit, as well as brings the flavour out more. Yup, vino that's likewise mutual depression temperature 'loses' about of it's fabulous flavor.

Well, no to a greater extent than vino cradling for me! Now my freshly-poured spectacles of vino volition endure simply right. Thank you, Staples!

The offset matter I did alongside my now-perfectly-chilled vino was whip upward this gorgeous Fresh Strawberry Sangria. I've been on a niggling fresh strawberry boot lately {Scrumptious Strawberry Cobbler, Southern Strawberry-Coconut Punch Bowl Cake, & Lemon-Poppy Seed Dip alongside Fresh Strawberries}, therefore I simply couldn't resist using these confine beauties inwards a beverage.

So, I tossed a bunch of sliced fresh strawberries inwards a pitcher alongside about white vino as well as other traditional sangria fixin's ...

... And therefore I poured myself a large ol' drinking glass of fresh Strawberry Sangria to enjoy. Ahhhh, total confine {and summer} refreshment. Perfectly chilled.

Strawberry Sangria

Source: Adapted from Food Network Magazine, May, 2011

(Printable recipe)

Ingredients

1 (750 ml) bottle dry out white or rose wine
1/4 c. light rum
1/4 c. granulated sugar
1 lemon, thinly sliced
2 c. sliced fresh strawberries
1 1/2 c. seltzer

Directions

Combine the wine, rum, as well as carbohydrate inwards a pitcher; stir to dissolve the sugar. Add the sliced lemon. Refrigerate for thirty minutes.
Add the sliced strawberries. Refrigerate for an additional thirty minutes.
Add the seltzer simply earlier serving.

Enjoy!

Staples provided me alongside a Haier 16-Bottle Wine Cellar for the purpose of this review. I was non otherwise compensated for this post. All thoughts as well as opinions expressed are my own. To encounter Staples' full delineate of piece of job of vino refrigerators, see Staples.com.

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