How do you make Sangria the way they do in Spain?

Most people don't realize that there is generally some form of strong spirit in the sangria as well as the lemonade and wine. Try adding some vodka or fruit liqeur to it. Hope this helps. I'm also adding a link to a site I found about making sangria. There's lots of info and links on it so it might help.

For approximately 1½ litres of Sangria

1 bottle of red wine

Lemonade

Brandy or Bacardi or Vodka

Grand Marnier or Cointreau

Lemon, orange and apple

Sugar

Ice

Preparation:

Into a punch bowl or a large jug pour 1 bottle of red wine and more or less the same amount of lemonade (in Spain they use gaseosa). The quantity of lemonade depends on your taste. Add a good amount of ice.

Wash the fruit well as you are going to being using the peel as well. Then slice up the citrus fruits, chop the apples and add to the mix.

You can stop at that if you want a light drink but if you want a zing add a shot of Brandy, Bacardi or Vodka and a shot of Grand Marnier or Cointreau. This is up to you and you may want to experiment with it to find what you like.

Spanish people often add a little sugar but again this depends on your taste, personally I think a little sugar enhances the flavour.

One sure way to have people ask about your Sangria.

A large bottle of Burgundy

1 can of Minute Maid Frozen Raspberry Lemonade

Mix and let settle, the longer the better ( I do mine in the a.m. for the p.m. )

add some sliced oranges or other fruits for appearance just prior to serving

Put some ice in the glass

Pour the Sangria over the ice ( leave some room at the top )

Add/Top off with Squirt

You are done and I guarantee that everyone at your table will ask how you made it.

Good luck!

Get yourself one of the finer red colors of Cisco or MD 20/20. Do some dumpster diving at one of the better restaurants in your neighborhood for some not too rancid fruit scraps. Mix 'em together and have at it.

Try this one, it's pretty good:

http://www.videojug.com/search?keywords=sangria

It never seems to taste the same if you are not drinking it in a hot country.

Me gustan los camarones ellos comen en Espana. muyyy sabrossooo. =)

Have you tried ginger beer in it?

It's really nice!