Tonight is New Year’s Eve. Yippee!!!! I’m so excited. I’ve been testing and tasting Champagne Cocktails for days now and tonight I get to let me friends have a taste. I hope they like them as much as I do.

Today I’m sharing the final champagne cocktail in my series “6 Easy Champagne Cocktails, 9 Simple Ingredients”. It’s a Sparkling Sangria, basically sparkling wine with a lot of ice and a lot of fruit. It’s a refreshing drink that would be perfect to start out your New Year’s Eve event. It is also a nice change from the usual Mimosa at brunch. So if you’re having friends over during the day tomorrow, this Sparkling Wine Sangria would be just the thing to celebrate the New Year in daylight.

The six Champagne Cocktails that I’ve told you about this week together use only nine ingredients. Get the list of ingredients that you’ll need here.

And here are the links to all the Champagne Cocktails.

Paint Your Mimosa Red

The Pink French 75

The Poinsetta

The Black Velvet

The Barbowhatever

And finally, here’s the recipe for today’s Champagne Cocktail, the Sparkling Sangria:

Sparkling Sangria

 

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Prep time

10 mins

Total time

10 mins

 

This sangria is made in a pitcher using 1 bottle of sparkling wine per batch. Don’t be tempted to make it ahead of time though (as you might a non-sparkling sangria) because you don’t want all the fizz to dissipate from the drink. You’re best to have all the fruit ready to go and then quickly combine it with the sparkling wine and ice as your guests arrive, and then make another batch when the first pitcher is empty.

Author: Christine

Recipe type: Beverage

Serves: 6

Ingredients

• ice cubes
• about 40 frozen cranberries
• 1 medium orange (or 2 clementines)
• ½ of a lemon
• 1 bottle of sparkling wine

Instructions

1. Put the cranberries in a medium sized bowl and cover with hot tap water to defrost them. Once defrosted, drain them and then chop them up. If any juice accumulates on the cutting board try to save it to add to the sangria. Similarly, roughly chop the orange and the lemon also saving up any of the juices that squirt out onto your cutting board.
2. Fill a 1 and ½ liter (50 ounce) pitcher ⅓ full of ice. Add the cranberries, orange and lemon along with any of the accumulated juice. Pour in the bubbly. Store in the fridge for up to 30 minutes before serving. I like to serve this sangria in Champagne flutes but you can use regular wine glasses or a martini glass.

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Now head on down to the comment section below and tell me what your food and drink plans are for tonight. I’m as excited to hear what you’re doing as I am to get my own party started. Have fun!