How to Flavor Your Alcohol with Sangria: White Wine Edition

After I posted our recipe for red wine sangria, I received multiple requests for a white wine version. Because apparently some of you are babies and don’t drink red wine. No, I’m only kidding. Maybe. (I’m looking at you, Yoga Pants Mafia!)

Now, I’m not normally a white wine drinker, but I happily obliged because:

1. Alcohol
2. I’ve got some white wine that I’ve received as gifts that I don’t know what to do with.
3. Alcohol

My husband and I brainstormed a bit on the ingredients. We wanted a different feel than the red wine sangria, but a similar alcohol content (read: IT WILL ALSO FUCK YOU UP).

We nailed it on the first try.

We drank the entire pitcher ourselves. That might not have been the brightest idea, but it was hot outside and the sangria light and refreshing. Unfortunately, we forgot to take many pictures. But I figure you’ll forgive us because sangria.

To make a small* batch, you need the following ingredients:

• 1 bottle of white wine (pinot gris or other light, citrus-flavored white wine)
• 1 pear, sliced (We used a Bartlett.)
• 1 apple, sliced (We used a Fuji.)
• 1 lemon, sliced
• 1 lime, sliced
• ¾ cup of triple sec
• ½ cup of pear brandy
• ½ cup of peach schnapps
• 1 bottle of Smirnoff Ice
• Fresh raspberries and blackberries for garnish

Step 1: Mix the wine and the sliced fruit in a glass container and let sit in the refrigerator for 24 hours. Sing this song while you wait.

Step 2: To the wine-fruit mixture, stir in the triple sec, pear brandy, peach schnapps, and Smirnoff Ice. Adjust quantities to suit your tastes.

Step 3: Garnish each serving with fresh raspberries and blackberries. Maybe even add some fresh mint.

Step 4: Always drink responsibly. And if you do something really stupid, please send me the video.

Just in time for your weekend party! Look at me—I’m Martha Fucking Stewart. Pre-incarceration.

Once again, you’re welcome.

*Because my husband is awesome, he did the math for us should you wish to make a larger quantity, which of course you do.

White Wine Sangria (medium vat)

• 3 bottles of white wine (pinot gris or other light, citrus-flavored white wine)
• 2 pears, sliced
• 2 apples, sliced
• 2 lemons, sliced
• 2 limes, sliced
• 2 cups of triple sec
• ½ cup of pear brandy
• ½ cup of peach schnapps
• 3 bottles of Smirnoff Ice
• Fresh raspberries and blackberries for garnish

White Wine Sangria (large vat)

• 5 bottles of white wine (pinot gris or other light, citrus-flavored white wine)
• 3 pears, sliced
• 3 apples, sliced
• 3 lemons, sliced
• 3 limes, sliced
• 750 mL of triple sec
• ¾ bottle of pear brandy
• ¾ bottle of peach schnapps
• 4-5 bottles of Smirnoff Ice
• Fresh raspberries and blackberries for garnish (Or fuck it because this is a shit-ton of sangria.)