The Best Sangria

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated May/June 1998, America's Test Kitchen TV

The best sangria is based on cheap wine and uses oranges and lemons as the only fruit.

SERVES 4

TIME 10 minutes, plus 2 hours chilling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For a robust, sweet-tart sangria recipe, we started with cheap red wine, which actually makes a better sangria than the expensive stuff. We experimented with untold varieties of fruit to put in our sangria recipe and finally concluded that ...

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