Sangria Bordeaux Blanc

With the waning days of summer, there is still time to grab your basket and gather up some fruit for a refreshing white Bordeaux sangria! Celebrate the end of summer by mixing up a white or red French Bordeaux wine with the best of fruits in season. For added sweetness, hold the sugar and sweeten with honey to taste. So spread out a blanket in the last lushness of sweet summer grass for an impromptu romantic apéritif for two.

INGREDIENTS

1 bottle of mid-priced French white Bordeaux wine of your choice

red and white grapes

1 orange

2 early McIntosh apples

2 peaches

1 nectarine

1 lemon

1 lime

honey to taste – optional

PREPARATION

•• Throughly wash and rinse all of the fruit, leaving the skins intact. •• Remove the cores from the apples and the pits from peaches and nectarine, then slice the fruit into small mouth-sized portions. •• Set aside the grapes, uncut. •• Place the fruit into a large pitcher and pour the full bottle of wine over the fruit. ••Add the desired amount of red and white grapes, in addition to honey to taste. •• Refrigerate the sangria for a minimum of 5 hours to overnight, allowing the fruit to ferment. •• To serve, spoon the fruit into large white wine glasses, then slowly pour the sangria over. ••

•• Santé ••

TIP •• What to do with the left over fruit from the white Bordeaux sangria?  Start another sangria by combining the deliciously fermented fruit with a red French Bordeaux! ••

The perfect accompaniment to enjoying this sangria is homemade french bread topped with an olive purée from the Kontoulis Family Olive Grove in Messinia, Greece. Producers of high quality, extra virgin olive oil, this first cold press and all natural olive oil and purée can be found at the Westport Farmers’ Market in Westport, Connecticut or you can order it online @ kontoulisfamily.com.

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