2-3peachesfrozen or fresh, sliced (can be peeled or not)
2cupssparkling water
Ice
mint and edible flowers or mint blossomsOptional garnishes
Instructions
Peach Puree Instructions
Take peaches and blend until smooth. If you don't like chunks in your sangria, you can push through a fine sieve (this will be harder with frozen peaches).
Mint Simple Syrup Instructions
Place sugar in a small saucepan and cover with water. Set to medium-low for about 7 until sugar is dissolved. Add in mint and cover. Let simmer for 3 minutes. Remove from heat, still covered, and let sit for 10 minutes.
Remove leaves.
Sangria Instructions
In a pitcher pour in the wine, whiskey, lemon juice, puree (or juice), simple syrup (add more if needed), and sliced peaches. Stir and let sit in the fridge. The longer it sits the better the flavor. You want a minimum of 1 hour, but overnight is probably best.
When ready to serve add in ice and sparkling water.
Pour into glasses and garnish.
Notes
- Make in advance: one of the vital parts of a sangria is that it has enough time to sit and soak up the flavors of the fresh fruit. So, I recommend at least 8 hours or overnight. The longer it can soak up flavors the better. And with this one you do have a simple syrup and puree, so it may go faster. But I would say the longer the better. I would say you don't want it to sit too long either just so the fresh fruit doesn't get too funky. So maybe just the night before or morning of is best.- Puree: As mentioned above I suggest to make this with fresh peaches, but you can make it with frozen, it might be easier if they are thawed. Also, if you don't wish to make a puree, you could definitely use peach juice instead.- Garnishing: I personally love a good garnish and was so excited to use my mint and pansies on this one from Gourmet Sweet Botanicals. They have so many different fun edible flower options to choose from. They sent me a few options for this drink, the mint blossoms, mint leaves, and pansies were just all perfect together. I would suggest just adding the mint to the pitcher, then topping with the flowers to each glass after it has been poured.- Batching: This is already in 1 large batch. However, if you are making this for a dispenser you could definitely times it by 2 or 3 for a dispenser and it would be the perfect pretty drink for that! You could still add in your ice and many of your mint garnishes, then have a bowl to the side filled with the flower garnishes for guests to top off themselves.