Once you make this a few times, you won't even need a recipe. Just taste as you go, adding more sugar, wine, or club soda to your taste. Choose a dry, young, inexpensive red wine for sangria. Make the sangria the night before serving as it needs at least 8 hours in the fridge to chill and to allow the fruit to blend with the wine. For maximum refreshment, be sure to serve it ice cold.
Makes about 1 quart.

1 bottle dry red wine
1/4 cup sugar, more or less to taste
2 Tbs. rum, more or less to taste
1 orange, squeezed for juice
1 orange, washed and cut into thin slices
1 lemon, washed and cut into thin slices
1 peach, washed and cut into thin slices
1 stick cinnamon (optional)
1 1/2 cups club soda, chilled
Ice cubes for serving

Pour the wine into a large pitcher or a punch bowl. Add the sugar, rum, and orange juice, stirring (with a sangria stirring spoon, if you have one) until the sugar dissolves. Add the orange, lemon, and peach slices and the cinnamon stick, if using. Chill the sangria for 8 hours, or overnight. Just before serving, add the club soda and ice cubes.

Recipe submitted by Dee