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Tinto de Verano
Andalusia's everyday summer wine — simpler than sangría, twice as refreshing.
Glass Tall glass or tumbler
Garnish Lemon slice
The Story
Tinto de verano — "summer red" — is what Andalusians actually drink when the heat arrives. Tradition credits Antonio Vargas's roadside venta in Córdoba in the early twentieth century, where red wine lengthened with fizzy lemonade — "un Vargas" — became the drink of the season.
Where sangría asks for fruit and patience, tinto de verano asks for nothing but a cold bottle and colder lemonade. Bestué's juicy Garnacha, grown in the foothills of the Pyrenees, is exactly the kind of honest red the serve was invented for.
The Recipe
How to Make It
Ingredients
- 100ml Bestué Garnacha, chilled
- 100ml Sparkling lemonade, well chilled
- — Cubed ice
Method
- 01 Fill a tall glass or tumbler with ice.
- 02 Pour in equal parts chilled red wine and sparkling lemonade.
- 03 Stir once and garnish with a slice of lemon.
- 04 Serve immediately — this is a drink for drinking, not admiring.
