Olive Garden Berry Sangria Recipe and Video

September 27, 2010 by Stephanie Manley, Last Updated January 19, 2021 48 Comments

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Olive Garden Berry Sangria is a light and refreshing beverage. Olive Garden offers a couple of different types of sangria and this one is made with fresh berries, red wine, and fruit juice.

a glass of homemade Olive Garden berry sangria

Everyone knows and loves the Olive Garden. Many people dine there regularly to enjoy its home-style Italian cuisine with its freshly made sauces and breadsticks. Instead of ordering a bottle of wine with your meal, you might want to drink something that is lighter but still has a bit of alcoholic zing, such as sangria.

Sangria is a light, refreshing beverage especially perfect for lunch, and the Olive Garden gives you two choices, their regular sangria, and their Berry Sangria.

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About the Olive Garden Berry Sangria

Many sangrias are flavored with several types of alcohol, but the Olive Garden Berry Sangria is delightfully simply – just wine, fruit juices, and fresh fruit. This sangria goes down more smoothly and easily than a much stiffer drink.

When making this Berry Sangria, you can take advantage of whichever fruit is in season and entices you with its beauty and freshness at your local market – blueberries, blackberries, strawberries are all good to use.

Ingredients

Here’s a list of what you need:

Red wine
Cran-raspberry juice
Simple syrup
Fresh berries such as strawberries, blackberries, or blueberries

How to Make Olive Garden Sangria

Pour all ingredients except the fresh fruit into a large container and stir well to combine.
Refrigerate the sangria for a couple of hours before serving.
When serving, place ice and fresh fruit in a glass. Fill the glass with sangria and garnish the glass with a strawberry.

Watch the video in the recipe card below for more berry sangria tips and information.

a pitcher of homemade Olive Garden Berry Sangria, strawberries, and blueberries

What Wine to Use for Sangria

When making sangria, you can use almost any type of wine that you enjoy. I personally prefer a wine that isn’t too sweet but has a nice fruity character to it such as Merlot, Shiraz, and Rosé.

And, if you are on a wine budget, making Sangria is a great way to stretch a bottle of wine.

Do Take Care With Your Measurements

I have to relate a story about my experience with making Sangria for a tapas party I held. I didn’t measure my ingredients very accurately, and I ended up pouring about half a bottle of orange liquor into my sangria.

A wonderful mistake? – it was sooo tasty! However, about an hour into the party, I was wondering why I felt so tipsy! So learn from this and measure all of your sangria ingredients carefully.

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This copycat recipe is the Olive Garden’s original recipe before they switched to a premade mix – probably the Monin Blackberry Sangria Mix.

If you want, you can order the Monin Blackberry Mix online. It is what Olive Garden really uses.

a glass of berry sangria, strawberries, blueberries, and mint leaves

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