Under these circumstances one can't go on drinking mulled wine every day (next fall I promise to post our amazing mulled wine recipe and you will understand why it may be tempting). This spiced hot fruit punch is a non-alcoholic alternative that warms the body and soul just as well. The recipe is a hybrid between our fragrant and sophisticated mulled wine recipe and and Russian kompot , a dead simple boiled fruit drink I enjoyed growing up.

so, I give up and make sangria. There are as many recipes for sangria as there are women in Spain. There is no proper, authentic sangria.