*One Hope Wine sent me wine to use in this post. Which is super awesome so I could spend money on taking my kids somewhere fun instead of buying the wine I needed to produce this series. That’s rad.
If you missed yesterday, then you don’t know that I am in day 2 of Wine Cocktails Week. Yesterday was red wine based cocktail recipes. It had to be done. I couldn’t cram all these delicious cocktail recipes, featuring wine, in to one post. And so we have a full week of them! Sauvignon Blanc is my favorite wine. So I couldn’t wait to add it to a few drinks and see how they tasted. I used this recipe as a guideline but swapped the watermelon juice (too much work, I’m lazy, and I’m not a huge fan of watermelon) for muddled strawberries. YUM!
This drink could be considered a martini due to the vodka. (I know that doesn’t MAKE a martini but in my head it does and I don’t know enough about James Bond to know how he drinks them…) The vodka, wine and club soda are tasty. Then add the lemon juice and strawberries…WOW!
I absolutely loved that there was an inspiring quote on the side of the One Hope Wine cork. A pretty cool touch if you ask me.
So I muddled the lemon juice and some fresh berries then topped it with some wine and the vodka. Shake it up with some ice and you are done. Super easy and totally different. Make these for your friends. You will totally impress them. And that is what friendship is all about, right? One-upping them? No? Oops.
Strain in to a martini glass and you’ve got yourself a delicious Strawberry Sauvignon Blanc Martini.
This cocktail was super tasty. The strawberries added a nice sweetness and the lemon juice really brightened it up. I’ll admit to being a total nerd about these cocktails. I had a blast trying them all out! (A note: my neighbor got super lucky because I would make a drink, taste it, shoot the photos and then take it to her house and keep working on the other ones. I’ll let you know if anyone ever moves out of my neighborhood so you can move in…)
Ingredients
- 1 oz Sauvignon Blanc (I used One Hope Wine)
- 1 oz vodka
- 3 fresh strawberries, stems removed
- 1 oz simple syrup
- 1/2 oz lemon juice (I used Meyer lemons. That's my jam.)
- 1 1/2 oz soda water
Instructions
- In a cocktail shaker, add lemon juice and fresh strawberries.
- With a muddler, muddle the berries.
- Add vodka and Sauvignon Blanc.
- Add ice and shake well.
- Strain in to a chilled martini glass.
- Recipe adapted from here: http://www.cosmopolitan.com/food-cocktails/g2121/cocktails-made-with-wine/?slide=13
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Hello! I’m going to try this but am a complete beginner with cocktails — How does one strain these ingredients? DIY methods? Will my stainless steel mini strainer work?
If you have a cocktail shaker it should have a strainer portion on top. Otherwise if you are mixing a cocktail in a glass, you can use the flat top of a mason jar lid to strain it in to another glass. And it won’t ruin the cocktail if the berry bits get in! Just do what you can do! Enjoy!
yum! this looks to tasty! i do, in fact, love watermelon and my husband is really in to cutting them up and tossing them in the blender so we have TONS of watermelon juice right now! i think i’ll have to try it both ways!
Let me know how you like it with the watermelon!