This white wine Sangria is a lovely alternative to your classic red wine Sangria. It is light, refreshing, and will have your guests asking for more. It contains plums, apples, lemons slices, orange slices, and kiwis. If you typically don't like red wine but still want to enjoy your Sangria, then this one made with white wine is a welcome change. I have had all types of sangria - freshly made, out of a carton but never one with white wine. Until I made this one.
This is by no means an authentic Spanish or Portuguese Sangria but this white wine sangria is very much inspired by the red wine classic. Other interesting and tasty drink recipes to try are these ginger-turmeric shots, this very refreshing passion fruit and hibiscus chiller, soursop juice or this very popular tangerine, pineapple, and sugarcane juice
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Ingredients
For this Sangria, you will need some fruits, a dry wine, simple syrup, some soda water or sparkling water, and some rum. Typically rum is not used when making sangria, however, as the choice of liquor for this Sangria, it works perfectly well.
How to make white wine Sangria
Slice and cut up all the fruits to be used for the Sangria and put them in the pitcher. See note 1 in the recipe card for the tip on citrus fruits.
Add wine to the fruits in the pitcher. You can choose to muddle some of the fruits if you want. The kiwis are already quite soft so there is no need to further muddle those.
Add the rum, simple syrup, and soda water, taste, and then leave to chill.
Great alternatives to white wine
- Red Wine - typically Sangria is made with red wine and so this is always a good classic choice.
- Moscato - if you prefer sweeter alcoholic drinks (like I do), then you can also use a Moscato instead of a dry white wine. In this case you will not need a simple syrup to sweeten your Sangria.
Variations
- Fruit - the choice of fruits is a personal choice but a good mix of citrusy and non-citrusy fruits make for a wonderful white wine Sangria.
- Orange juice - instead of slicing up the oranges you can also use the juice of the orange. This way you don't worry about the bitterness that comes from the pith (the white bit under the peel).
- Soda/Fizzy drinks - in place of soda water, you can use sprite or even ginger ale.
Tip
- If you want to make this ahead of time, you should mix everything except for the soda water, as this will become flat over time. You can therefore just chill the soda water and then pour that into the Sangria once it is ready to be served.
- The piths of the orange and especially lemons leave a rather unpleasant bitter aftertaste in your Sangria if left in too long. A good tip is to cut those off before adding the citrus fruits to your Sangria.
- You can use the citrus fruits with the piths intact in the Sangria. In this case, leave them in for a few hours only and then take them out. Or put the citrus fruits in the Sangria shortly before serving.
White Wine Sangria
Ingredients
- 750 millilitres white wine dry
- 2 plums cored and quartered
- 1 kiwi sliced
- 1 orange sliced
- 1 lemon sliced
- 1 apples seeds removed and cut into quarters
- 1 shot rum white or brown
- 250 millilitres soda water or sparkling water
- simple syrup to taste
Instructions
- Put all the fruits into a large pitcher and add the wine.
- Add the rum, the soda water, and the simple syrup to taste. See note 1.
- Leave to chill for about 4 hours before serving. See note 2.
Notes
- You can add the soda water or sparkling water, when you are about to serve so that the Sangria doesn't lose that fizz.
- It is important not to leave the citrus fruits, that is the oranges and lemons in the Sangria for too long. They can leave an unpleasant bitter aftertaste. You can either leave them in for a few hours and take them out or you can remove the pith and leave them in without any problems.
- You can cut up the fruits to be smaller, the choice is entirely yours.
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