Apple Cider Sangria

Apple Cider Sangria is an easy recipe that adds a fall spin to your sangria cocktail! Apple cider, applejack brandy and a sweet white wine combine with a hint of vanilla to create your new favorite fall sangria!

Apple Cider Sangria Recipe

If it’s apple season it must be apple cider season too! The rich intense spiced apple flavor of cider transports me to crisp autumn evenings with visions of falling leaves, pumpkins and bushels and bushels of red, green and golden apples.

I’d say the timing is right to put a fall spin on your sangria with our apple sangria.

When the seasons start to change, let our cider sangria be your go-to cocktail.

We combine seasonal apples and apple cider with sweet white wine, brandy and sparkling soda for a festive fall cocktail.

That delectable spiced apple beverage, also known as sweet cider and soft cider, is the official state beverage of New Hampshire.

And as if apple cider isn’t delicious enough on it’s own, it transforms into amazing festive deliciousness when made into our easy apple sangria.

Applejack brandy, along with a hint of vanilla extract, add a depth of intense apple flavor making this the most amazing apple whiskey sangria you have ever tasted!

You can add vodka or gin to this recipe for a more potent sangria. Spiced rum will add more flavor and potency too!

Prefer your sangria less sweet? Substitute club soda for the lemon lime soda.

I’d even recommend this as your new Thanksgiving sangria to serve for the holiday too! You may also want to give my homemade Cranberry Sangria a try for the holidays too!

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I love to top off my sangria pitcher with a bubbly soda just before serving because a sparkling apple cider sangria is the best! And be sure to serve your sangria in these trendy stemless wine glasses and you'll be right in style! Cheers to a new season!

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How to make a fall sangria

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1. In large pitcher combine sweet white wine, apple cider, applejack brandy, vanilla and chopped apples.
2. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
3. Just before serving add lemon lime soda and ice.

Swirls of Flavor Recipe Tips

• Use your favorite apples of the season
• Make this cocktail with ginger ale or ginger beer
• Add spiced rum!
• Add gin or vodka!

Substitutions

• Substitute Cognac or your favorite brandy for applejack brandy
• Make your sangria with Pinot Grigio

Homemade Sangria Recipes

• Peach Sangria
• Frozen Berry Sangria
• Rose Sangria
• Honeycrisp Apple Sangria from Grumpy's Honeybunch

Ingredients for apple sangria

• sweet white wine – compliments the apple cider flavor
• apple cider - unfiltered, unsweetened drink made from apples
• applejack brandy – deep flavor and smooth balanced brandy made with apples
• vanilla extract - rounds out the flavors
• red and/or green apples – for flavor, color and crunch
• lemon lime soda – adds bubbles

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Mulled Apple Cider is a delicious way to kick off the chilly autumn season. Apple cider infuses with cinnamon sticks, fresh ginger and clementines in your slow cooker  for a flavorful beverage bursting with fall flavors. Just add Bourbon and slices of clementine and lime and this hot toddy will surely become a fall favorite! 

Pomegranate Bourbon Punch, a perfect balance of bourbon, pomegranate juice, orange juice and ginger ale with a hint of vanilla, will quickly become your signature party punch.

Cranberry Sangria is an easy cocktail recipe that will warm you up during the holiday season with rich bodied wines and a hint of spice! Red wine, spiced rum and port combine with cranberry juice, fruits and spices for a flavorful easy sangria recipe.

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Apple Cider Sangria

Apple Cider Sangria is an easy recipe that adds a fall spin to your sangria! Apple cider, applejack brandy and a sweet white wine combine with a hint of vanilla to create your new favorite autumn cocktail! 

Course Drinks

Cuisine Mexican

Keyword apple cider sangria, fall sangria, sangria

Prep Time 10 minutes

Servings 10

Calories 148kcal

Author Gwynn Galvin

Ingredients

• 1 (750ml) bottle Barefoot Refresh Sweet White Wine or Pinot Grigio
• 4 cups apple cider
• 1 cup applejack brandy
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract
• 3 red and/or green apples, cored, chopped, about 4 cups
• 2 cups lemon lime soda

Instructions

• In large pitcher combine Sweet White wine, apple cider, applejack brandy, vanilla and chopped apples.
• Refrigerate until ready to serve.
• Just before serving add lemon lime soda and ice.

Notes

Makes 10 cups sangria PLUS chopped apples.

Swirls of Flavor Recipe Tips

• Use your favorite apples of the season
• Make this cocktail with ginger ale or ginger beer
• Substitute Cognac or your favorite brandy for applejack brandy
• Make your sangria with Pinot Grigio

Nutrition

Calories: 148kcal | Carbohydrates: 23g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 1g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 9mg | Potassium: 154mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 20g | Vitamin A: 29IU | Vitamin C: 3mg | Calcium: 11mg | Iron: 1mg

First Published: October 1, 2013... Last Updated: September 26, 2022