Strawberry Basil Lemonade Spritzer

Happy Saturday, folks!  I had a fantastic spring day wine tasting in Napa with a wonderful friend of mine.   

I made a nice light sparkly (and hydrating) spring drink for us to sip along the way: a strawberry basil lemonade spritzer.

I thought it would be a great way to start a day before wine tasting – sparkly water to hydrate us, and lemon, which is incredibly alkalizing (surprising, I know!), to prepare us for a day of drinking (not alkalizing.)    


serves 4
3 C strawberries
6 lemons
a few sprigs basil
4 C sparkling water

Take the greens off your strawberries, peel your lemons, and then juice both of those.  Pour the juice in a pitcher with the sparkling water and the basil.

That’s it!


A couple extra tips: 

Sweetness: hopefully your strawberries are sweet enough to balance out the tartness from the lemons.  If they’re not, go ahead and add your favorite kind of sweetener to taste.

Travel version: unless you’re drinking this pretty quickly, leave the sparkling water out (it’ll get flat.)  You can take a little bit of the strawberry-lemon juice and a stem of basil to work in a mason jar and pop open a bottle of sparkling water there when you’re ready for it.

Change it up!  You can change this recipe so much – pick whatever fruit you like the best, or whatever is the prettiest or cheapest at your market.  Some ideas:

Fruit: raspberries. blueberries. peaches. mango. pineapple. watermelon. cantaloupe. kiwi.
Herbs: mint. tarragon. rosemary.
Make it a lime-ade or orange-ade instead of lemonade, or leave that part out completely! 

Now for some Napa shots! 
 
tasting room entrance at Beaulieu Vineyard
check out the funny trees at Peju! 
 now you see it, now you don’t 😉 
 
delicious hodge-podge lunch – I am replicating this incredible edamame salad for sure
 sun starting to set on our way out! 
 
my beautiful date for the day, my friend Lauren! 
what, don’t you end your wine tasting days at a cantina playing pool? 
then surely you must follow up wine tasting with this?
Happy Spring, happy Saturday, and happy wine-ing! 
Do you have any day trips or outings planned for the beginning of spring?

 
Nutrition facts per serving: Calories: 73; Calories from Fat: 3; Total Fat: 0.4g; Sodium: 5mg; Total Carbohydrates: 19.8g; Dietary Fiber: 5.0g; Sugars: 9.0g; Protein: 2.1g


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