Refreshing Spanish Summer Drink Recipe

Looking for the perfect way to quench your thirst with Spanish recipes? Dive into the world of Spain’s most famous drinks and refresh yourself instantly.

The Spanish summer drink is an alcoholic beverage made with mostly fresh ingredients, making it the perfect drink to cool you down.

Continue reading this article, and you will learn how to make it from scratch, with expert tips on storing, serving, and customizing the ingredients.

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Background of the Dish

Andalusia is the home for some of the best drinks, with some of them showcasing locally produced alcoholic beverages, such as gin, wine, and liquor, among others.

This drink, in particular, was created as an alternative to the famous Spanish wine cocktail, sharing ingredients like fruit and soda, but featuring dry white wine instead of red.

This change is what gives the drink its unique character—light, crisp, and refreshing, making it an ideal choice for hot summer days.

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Things You’ll Need for Spanish Summer Drink

To prepare this fantastic Spanish summer drink, you will need dry white wine, lemon-lime soda, lemon, orange, ice cubes, and mint leaves.

Ingredients

• 1 bottle (750 ml to 1l) dry Spanish white wine (like Verdejo, Albariño, or Rueda)
• 2 cups (480ml) lemon-lime soda (like Sprite, 7-Up, or a similar lemon-lime soda)
• 1 lemon 
• 1 orange 
• Fresh mint leaves for garnish
• Ice cubes

How to Make Spanish Summer Drink – Step by Step Guide

1. Before making one of the best Spanish wine drinks, you have to chill the wine, soda, orange and lemon in the fridge for a few hours, to ensure 

2. After that, clean the orange and lemon thoroughly, then slice them thinly into clean, even wheels or wedges. Ensure the slices are neat and uniform, as they will also serve as a decorative garnish for this Spanish fruit drink.

3. Now, fill the half of a pitcher with ice cubes. Pour the lemon and orange slices, the white wine, and the soda at last. Gently stir the Spanish drink, just enough to combine. Add some of the fresh mint leaves for extra flavour.

4. For the final step in this fresh summer drink recipe, pour the drink into tall glasses. Garnish with an additional mint leaf and lemon or orange slice.

Substitution of Ingredients

The Spanish summer drink is super easy to make, and as long as you have some sort of wine, fruit and soda, you can prepare it.

For example, if you don’t have dry white wine, you could prepare this summer wine drink recipe with red wine, though it would be more similar to the tinto de verano.

Besides that, feel free to prepare this fun summer drink with orange or grapefruit flavored soda, or sparkling water for a less sweet flavor.

You can also adapt this nice summer drink to any festivity, by including colorful fruits such as berries for Christmas or San Valentine, grapes and melon for San Patric days, Pineapples and raisins for New Year’s, etc.

Do you want to expand your summer wine drinks repertoire? Then, you have to explore some of our best ones, like the sangria, the Spanish red wine cocktail, and the fruity Spanish drink.

Tips on Serving Spanish Summer Drink

In general, popular Spanish drinks are served as an aperitif before a meal or accompanied by a nice selection of tapas in the afternoon.

Thanks to its flavor profile, the Spanish summer drink can also be served with the main dishes of a meal, as the white wine doesn’t overpower the flavors of the food.

To enhance the looks of this drink, you can draw inspiration from different Spanish summer drinks and garnish it with slices of citrus, as well as a rim coated with sugar for extra sweetness.

If you are having friends coming over, we encourage you to make multiple simple Spanish drinks, so there is plenty to choose from, such as the Spanish gin and tonic, the mango sangria recipe, and the agua de Valencia.

How to Store Spanish Summer Drink

The Spanish summer drink only takes a few minutes to be ready, and it is best enjoyed when freshly made, so it can’t be stored.

Without adding the soda or sparkling water, you could store the wine and the sliced fruits with mint in the fridge for a couple of hours.

Still, we have other traditional Spanish drinks that you can prepare ahead and store for different amounts of time, such as the fermented pineapple drink, the Spanish coffee cocktail, and the gazpacho alcoholic drink.

Recipe Card: Spanish Summer Drink

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