Recipe: Halloween Sangria

Question: What’s blood-red, has floating eyeballs and tastes devilishly delicious? Our Halloween Sangria, of course.

If you enjoy a glass of red wine sangria in the summertime, this will be right up your street as the recipe is quite similar but with spooky additions.

Whether you’re heading to a fancy dress party this weekend or staying in to watch spooky films, this is your go-to drink. It’s easy to make and simple to scale up for a ghoulish crowd.

Ingredients:

Red Wine: You can use anything you like but make it fruity. Try the When In Rome Primitivo or Le Malbec D’Herve.

Brandy: This is going to add a boost of flavour to the cocktail. No fancy brands are needed here, a super-market own brand could do the trick.

Grapes: Any colour. These will be your ‘eyeballs’. You’re going to want to get your grapes in the freezer ahead of time.

Citrus Fruit: You can’t have sangria without fruit. Lemon, lime, orange and grapefruit all work well.

Ginger Beer: The secret ingredient! Adding that bit of extra Autumnal flavour. If you can’t get ginger beer, ginger ale will work too.

Cinnamon Stick: Optional but it does add to the flavour.

Method: Serves 1

1. Wash the grapes and get them in the freezer the night before if possible.

2. Chop your citrus into slices.

3. Add your citrus, cinnamon stick and frozen grapes to a glass.

4. Add 25ml Brandy.

5. Add 190ml red wine.

6. Top up with ginger beer.

Method: Serves 4

1. Wash the grapes and get them in the freezer the night before if possible.

2. Chop your citrus into slices.

3. Add your citrus, cinnamon stick and frozen grapes to a glass.

4. Add 100ml Brandy.

5. Add 750ml red wine.

6. Top up with ginger beer.

Tried this recipe? I’d love to see your photos so please tag @brixtonwineclub in them. Happy Halloween!