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So cranberry sangria? Cranberry sangria. Absolutely delicious cranberry sangria.

What you’ll need:

750 ml of some fruity wine (I used Barefoot zinfandel because it’s cheap but not too jacked, make your selection based on how tolerant you are of sweeter/drier wines)
1 cup decent-to-good orange juice
a batch of half-assed cranberry sauce

Boil 1 cup of water, 1 cup sugar (less if you like your cranberries tarter--1/2 cup is still pretty sweet) , and 1 12-ounce package of fresh cranberries. Turn the heat to low, simmer for like 5 minutes.

Pour the bottle of wine and the orange juice into a pitcher. Drain the liquid from the cranberry sauce into it, then squish the pulp that’s left until all the juice drains out. Mix the juice into the wine, discard the pulp (or bake it into a dessert bread), chill everything for a couple of hours, then drink to your heart’s content*.

*You can’t really taste the alcohol in this stuff, so probably go easy on it if you have to get yourself someplace afterwards.