Watermelon Sangria

Watermelon Sangria is a refreshing summer cocktail made with fresh watermelon, lime juice, and white wine to create a festive, bright, and light cocktail.

Watermelon Sangria is a delicious summer cocktail made with fresh watermelon juice, fresh lime juice, and dry white wine. It is refreshing, crisp, light, and bursting with watermelon flavor.

This sangria recipe is a perfect way to use up leftover watermelon or the perfect way to cool down on a hot summer day. Or you can garnish this Watermelon Sangria with a watermelon star and fresh blueberries for the perfect drink for your patriotic celebrations--so cute and festive!

Ingredients Needed

• Watermelon: Fresh, juicy, ripe watermelon is best for making watermelon sangria. Be sure to not use watermelon that is pale in color and lacks sweetness.
• Lime Juice: Fresh lime juice adds tartness and brightness to this sangria. Be sure to use FRESHLY squeezed juice instead of bottled lime juice.
• White Wine: Select a dry white wine, like Chardonnay or Pinot Grigio for this sangria.
• Triple Sec: The citrus flavors of triple sec add a nice dimension and flavor to the sangria.
• Seltzer water: To keep the sangria bubbly and light, finish off the cocktails with seltzer water.

How to Make Watermelon Sangria

Step One: Prepare Watermelon Juice

• Cut up watermelon into cubes, leaving some larger slices of watermelon intact for cutting out watermelon stars. Need help cutting a watermelon, check out this tutorial on how to cube a watermelon. 
• Place the cubed watermelon into a blender and blend until smooth.
• Strain the watermelon juice over a fine mesh strainer. This is a VERY necessary step, or your sangria may have chunks or pulp which is very unappetizing.

Step Two: Prepare Sangria

• To a large pitcher, add fresh watermelon juice, lime juice, triple sec, and white wine.
• Stir to incorporate.
• Refrigerate for at least 2 hours before serving. This will allow the flavors to really meld together.

Step Three: Serve

• Fill glasses with ice.
• Stir the watermelon mixture and then fill the glass ⅔rds of the way full with the mixture.
• Top off with chilled seltzer water.
• If desired, prepare watermelon stars by simply using a star-shaped cookie cutter to cut out stars from watermelon slices.
• Garnish with fresh blueberries and watermelon star cutouts if desired.

More Refreshing Drink Recipes

• Pina Colada
• Mint Lemonade
• Blackberry Mojitos
• Peach Bellini 

If you enjoyed this simple, refreshing Watermelon Sangria, please be sure to leave a comment below. 

Watermelon Sangria

Fresh watermelon and lime juice are mixed up with crisp white wine and seltzer water for a Summer Sangria.

5 from 12 votes

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Course: Drinks

Cuisine: American

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Chill: 2 hours

Total Time: 10 minutes

Servings: 8

Calories: 134kcal

Author: Kristen Chidsey

Ingredients

• ▢ 7 cups fresh watermelon diced
• ▢ ¼ cup fresh lime juice
• ▢ 1 bottle dry white wine
• ▢ ¼ cup triple sec optional
• ▢ 1 liter plain seltzer water optional
• ▢ 1 pint blueberries optional

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Instructions

• Blend 7 cups of watermelon until smooth. Strain through a mesh strainer to remove any seeds or pulp, reserving the juice.
• Add fresh watermelon juice, lime juice, triple sec and white wine to large pitcher. Stir to incorporate.
• Chill for 2-4 hours.
• Before serving, stir again. Fill a glass with ice. Pour in the watermelon mixture until the glass is ⅔rds of the way full. Top off the glass with chilled seltzer water.
• Garnish with fresh blueberries and watermelon stars if desired.

Notes

• Use a dry white wine like Pinot Grigio, Sauvignon Blanc, or Dry Riesling
• Best to serve after 2-4 hours of refrigeration.
• Watermelon Sangria will keep for 3 days in the refrigerator. 
• The seltzer water adds a nice effervescence to this Sangria, but feel to omit. 
• Triple sec adds incredible depth of flavor but can be omitted in a pinch. 

Nutrition

Calories: 134kcal | Carbohydrates: 26g | Protein: 1g | Sodium: 33mg | Potassium: 312mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 19g | Vitamin A: 1005IU | Vitamin C: 21.9mg | Calcium: 30mg | Iron: 0.8mg

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