White Wine Drenched Fruit Salad
How about a little boozy fruit to start your week?
The very first time I had this salad was at a wedding shower. The glass bowl was appropriately labeled “Grownup Fruit Salad”. I was really confused because I saw strawberries, grapes, blueberries… nothing out of the norm. I asked a friend of mine… what gives? She said it’s drizzled with some kind of wine concoction.
Uh-hold-up… What-the-what? Yes puh-lease!
When I got to the end of my bowl, I looked to the left… then to the right. And when the coast was clear I drank the wine in the bottom of my dixie cup. Then I contemplated stealing all the cups scattered on the surrounding tables. Hey I’m not above it, but I didn’t want to be looked at as “that girl” {but in a way I sorta wished I kinda was}.
You really could use any fruit your heart desired; pineapple, grapes, kiwi… load em up! You can’t go wrong with wine-drenched ANYTHING… Right?
Start making the wine simple syrup by dumping in a quarter cup of sugar. Yeah you heard right… WINE simple syrup… it’s the shizz.
Like every time I open a bottle with a “real” cork… I always start off thinking I aimed dead center…
Then I start to open the wine. Simple huh?
I have corkscrew issues. No matter how hard I try to center it…
Inevitably this happens. Every. Single. Time. But hey, I’m a pro at getting the remaining mutilated cork out of the bottle. Winner.
Measure out a cup of wine. This bottle of wine was given to me as a house-warming present from my best friend Nichole. It doesn’t specify what kind of white it is but on the back it said with hints of melon and floral notes. So I thought bingo-bango this’ll do but always use a wine you’d drink and that’s not too overly sweet.
Over medium-low heat, stir the sugar into the wine over until the sugar dissolves {do NOT boil}. Immediately remove it off of the heat and let it cool.
Wash the blueberries and measure out 3/4 of a cup.
Rinse the strawberries too. Trim off the green tops and quarter up about 10 medium sized strawberries.
I have here about 1-1/2 cups each of honeydew melon and cantaloupe; go ahead and throw that into a large bowl.
Add in the berries…
Rinse off the 6-8 large leaves of mint. Stack, roll and slice thin.
Sprinkle it into the berry bowl.
Toss.
Drizzle with a little {or a lot} of the wine syrup.
Serve it up in fun small glasses or plates, and savor the flavor! Fruit just got A LOT better 
! Happy Monday!
White Wine Drenched Fruit Salad
Grown up fruit salad!
Yield: 4-6 servings depending
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 0 minutes
Total Time: 20-25 minutes
Ingredients:
FOR THE WINE SYRUP:
1 Cup White Wine {use one you love to sip!}
1/4 cup Sugar
FOR THE SALAD:
2 cups quartered Strawberries
1-1/2 cups cubed Honeydew Melon
1-1/2 cups cubed Cantaloupe
3/4 cup Blueberries
6-8 large Fresh Mint Leaves, rolled and sliced thin
Other optional fruits like grapes, pineapple, kiwi or apples would be delicious as well! A cup of each or more would work!
Directions:
In a saucepan add the 1/4 cup of sugar and the cup of white wine. Stir over medium-low heat until the sugar dissolves into the wine. Remove and let cool. Chill in the fridge until ready to use.
Combine desired fruit and sliced mint in a large bowl. Chill until ready to serve. Dish the fruit salad into cute little cups or bowls and drizzle with the wine syrup just before serving.
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This is a great idea for a shower! I’m totally bookmarking this.
oh honey, i would TOTALLY have been that girl…when it comes to fruity wine at the bottom of dixie cups it’s no-holds-barred for me
simplyscratch replied: — July 16th, 2012 @ 8:50 pm
Ha ha! I know… now I totally look back and regret it :/
You had me at “wine drenched…” This is kinda like sangria. But better maybe?!
I’ll be there in 5.
umm wow, there could not be a more perfect fruit salad out there. wine simple syrup-count me in!
simplyscratch replied: — July 16th, 2012 @ 8:49 pm
Thanks April!
This is the best looking and sounding fruit salad going!
Hmmmm…a wine simple syrup. I’m intrigued at other dishes this could be paired with. This is still a good use for it, however…
simplyscratch replied: — July 16th, 2012 @ 8:44 pm
The wine simple syrup can be used in sweetening drinks too
Aside from the striking array of colors this sounds amazing!
simplyscratch replied: — July 16th, 2012 @ 8:45 pm
Thanks Britney!
Boozy fruit is always in order, especially for summer. I love this, a perfect compliment to some sangria!
Alochol in a refreshing fruit salad?! Yes please. I’m totally making a huge batch and bringing it to work
WOW! boozy fruit, can’t go wrong with that. This sounds amazing!
simplyscratch replied: — July 16th, 2012 @ 8:43 pm
Amen Carrie!
wow!!! White Wine simple syrup…. fresh fruit! Yes Please!!
Can’t wait to try!
OH. SWEET. MERCY. Uh huh. Yup. That’s looks incredible. I am a sucker for fresh fruit anyway, but seriously, way to step it up!
love the boozy edition of fruit!! i can NEVER open a wine bottle without cracking the cork either..ugh i hate it! i need a better wine opener
simplyscratch replied: — July 16th, 2012 @ 11:56 pm
Let me know when you find one Julie
With white wine..I like it ..
Fruit drenched in white wine? Yeah, that sounds pretty awesome to me!
Totally healthy(some consider wine healthy) dessert!
I’m right there with you! I’ll take this over the kids version any day!
This is soooo prefect for summer!
That looks amazing!!
Boozy fruit salad is the way to go! A group of friends and I used to get together on a regular basis and one gal in particular always brought booze drenched fruit salads (I think she used rum or vodka). We always inhaled it!
I love just about anything boozy. So this fruit looks pretty awesome to me.
Oh, My Oh, My Oh, My…how to resist adding to my breakfast yoghurt…maybe I’ll change dinner to breakfast, and breakfast to dinner, so I can “drink” some of my daily fruit servings! LOL!
Yeah, wine in my fruit sounds great! Fruit salad is always welcome by me, especially when it’s blazing hot outside…the white wine gives it a nice zing for a boozed up treat – love the idea and will definitely put it to use soon!
Instantly bookmarked!!! waiting until the next potluck!
How I use that type of corkscrew: Make sure you screw it all way through the cork or as far in as you can get it. I also like to hold the bottleneck and the corkscrew ring steady as I collapse the arms to pull the cork out. once the arms are most of the way down (almost touching your knuckles of the bottle hand), let go of the bottle neck finish collapsing the arms and wiggle the cork loose. Let the arms of the corkscrew do most of the work pulling the cork out. The cork should be most of the way out by the time you get to wiggling. Let me know how it goes!
Also thanks for this recipe! Very classy!
This fruit salad came out GREAT! I used a Riesling-blend wine with hints of melon, apricot and vanilla. It tasted perfect. I will definitely make this again and pass the recipe along.