101 Sangrias and Pitcher Drinks

Has the best sangria recipes for all seasons throughout the year.

First, the good--this book has 42 innovative and beautiful sangria recipes, along with some batched cocktails, seasonal punches, lemonades, etc. You could probably make just a few of these and justify the purchase price.Now, the not as good--in spite of the title, 25 of the recipes are inexplicably single-serving versions of mostly standard drinks (Mai tais, singapore slings, Pimm's cup), for which recipes are already readily available. The reader is assumed to be near well-stocked stores (yuzu fruit and hard-to-find spirits). A number of the batched drinks are fussy (shake each serving in a cocktail shaker)--to me, the whole point of a pitcher drink or punch is to make it easy on the host. Some of the punch recipes are for the base, then the reader is left to guess how much alcohol to add.Last, while there are some great tips on getting the most out of fruit, the book could have included quite a bit more on things making ice blocks or molds for cooling, containers, estimating serving sizes, how to "scale up" recipes (with large-scale recipes, it's seldom as easy as just doubling). I bought this book for a gift, but also ended up buying Cocktails for a Crowd to give with it, because Cocktails for a Crowd includes all the missing info, plus more than 40 batch cocktail and punch recipes, most of which are far easier to put together, but still delicious.

It is what it claims to be, a great book of Sangria's recipes. Only reason I gave it 4 instead of 5 stars is because I had to buy a second one, it is small and I lost the first one! But it was good enough that I bought 2!

Sangrias and Pitcher drinks are a whole lot of fun in the summer, at the picnic table, by the pool side and for no real reason other than just for the fun of it. Good collection of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks are included (well just don’t add the Vodka and its a virgin drink). Great party book. The Macadamia nut Brulee and the Watermelon Yuzu punch are my favourites...

I was super excited to receive this in the mail after reading about all the good reviews. There are so many drink that look and sound delicious. I just need to a wait for summer to arrive quicker so I can host dinner parties and get together to serve these awesome drinks. This is a great book to add to your library and won't be disappointed.

Exactly as described! Arrived quickly!! GREAT EXPERIENCE!!

Unfortunately some items are hard to find and gets pricey

the book is ok I prefer to make my own which I fine better than what she had in the book

Great book with some really nice and quick recipes, great for parties.

Some really nice recipes in here, great photography too!

To make sangria of course!