Summertime Sangria Recipe

Ingredients

Raspberry Simple Syrup

• 120g raspberries
• 1 cup of water
• 1 cup of agave syrup

Summertime Sangria

• 1 bottle of dry white wine
• Raspberry simple syrup
• 4 nectarines, sliced
• 2 lemons, thinly sliced
• Handful of raspberries
• 500ml ginger ale
• Rosemary stalks (washed) to garnish

Instructions

1. 1First make your simple syrup. In a small saucepan, combine the raspberries, water and agave over a medium heat until the mixture just begins to simmer.
2. 2Turn off the heat and leave to cool. 
3. 3Over a small bowl, push syrup through a mesh sieve to catch all the raspberry seeds, leaving you with only the smooth liquid. 
4. 4Place the nectarine wedges, lemon slices and raspberries into a pitcher and squeeze in the juice of the other lemon. 
5. 5Pour the simple syrup (like it less sweet? Try using half to begin with) and the entire bottle of white wine over the fruit. 
6. 6 Refrigerate the sangria for at least 4 hours to let the fruit soak up the alcohol. 
7. 7Prepare wine glasses with ice and a stalk of rosemary for decoration. 
8. 8Fill the glass until ¾ full (including some of the fruit) then top off with a little ginger ale to taste.