From the BlogSubscribe Now  How To Make Sangria With Red Wine
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Remember your freshman year in college when you’d crash the
fraternity parties and there’d always be one of those large
plastic garbage cans full of red wine with chunks of fruit
floating in it? That little sting of brandy lurking just behind
the fruitiness of every cupful? Remember you and your buds
trying to drink your way to the bottom of those garbage cans,
party after party, weekend after weekend, with the same results
every time: several of you getting violently ill and finding
chunks of chewed fruit stuck to your socks the following day?
That was my introduction to sangria. It’s such a simple recipe:
cheap red wine, cheap brandy and some fruit. Mix it all up,
chill and you’ve got a delicious but cheap wine punch.  Of
course that’s what red wine sangria was originally made for,
getting drunk on the cheap.  The Origin Of Sangria  The drink
hails from Spain dating as far back as 300 B.