15 Fall Sangrias For Crisp Sips When The Temp Dips

It’s true, we are ALL about seasonality here at Delish. While sometimes that means focusing on in-season produce, it’s just as likely to mean taking our favorites from one season, and making them fit into another. Check out our baked brie pasta (no tomatoes for baked feta pasta? No problem), our mistletoe margaritas, or our elote Mexican street corn nachos (using frozen corn means you can make them year-round) to see what we mean. We’re most proud of how we’ve taken sangria, a drink that largely exists to take heavy red wine into summer, and turned it into a drink perfect for fall. Take a look at our 15 fall sangria recipes to see how we managed it!

If you’re unfamiliar, sangria is a traditional Spanish and Portuguese beverage that dates back to the Middle Ages. It was originally aged wine mixed with fruit and spices, such as cinnamon, but has evolved through time into regional variations. Our version is light and bubbly, thanks to the addition of seltzer water, but is still quite boozy, thanks to the perfect ratio of wine to brandy. More of a white wine person? No problem. Try our white wine sangria or our moscato sangria instead. Once you’ve got the basics down, it’s easy to swap in and out ingredients to make it more autumnal—try our apple cider sangria (with ginger beer), our cranberry sangria, our pumpkin pie sangria, or our Fireball sangria for ideas, but really, get creative.

Want more fall inspiration? Check out our favorite fall appetizers, fall desserts, and fall cocktails too.

Sparkling wine, apple cider, and fireball whiskey combine to make the perfect sangria to drink after apple picking, crunching through fall leaves, or carving pumpkins. Check out our best fireball recipes to use up the rest of the bottle too.

Get the Sparkling Apple Cider Sangria recipe.

For fans of Olive Garden's signature sangria, this copycat will blow your minds: believe us, it might be even better than the original. We packed ours with fresh fruit, but for fall, skip the berries and put the focus on those tart green apple slices.

Get the Green Apple Moscato Sangria recipe.

Sangria might make you think of warm summer nights and tropical fruits, but this apple-based cocktail will have you ready for fall. Here, we went for a white wine sangria, rounded out with spicy ginger beer and sweet apple cider.

Get the Apple Cider Sangria recipe.

Kick your red wine sangria up a notch with some Fireball! The cinnamon whiskey is the perfect transition into fall cocktails. If you can't find blood oranges, use cara cara or more navel oranges instead.

Get the Fireball Sangria recipe.

We look for an excuse to put apple cider into everything during the fall and this sangria is our best use yet. It's perfect for entertaining—your friends will love you for it!

Get the Moscato Apple Sangria recipe.

When the time comes for something a little more warming, we turn to this sparkling sangria. Ours features low-calorie Splenda (proving you can enjoy cocktails even when you're avoiding sugar), but feel free to swap in regular sweetener if you like.

Get the Sparkling Fall Sangria recipe.

White wine, sparkling cider, and pumpkin pie vodka combine in this surprisingly refreshing fall cocktail. Don't have pumpkin pie vodka? Try substituting other pumpkin flavored liquors, like rum or whiskey, or adding additional pumpkin pie spice to the drink itself (and not just on the sugared rim).

Get the Pumpkin Pie Sangria recipe.

Sangria without the wine? Yes, please. The fruit is the real star here — use whatever’s in season and get creative with your combinations (think cranberries, orange slices, and rosemary for fall!)

Get the Virgin Cranberry Basil Sangria recipe.

Apple cider is THE go-to when it comes to taking summery sangria into fall, but it can be a little sweet. Pair it with cranberry juice to keep it tart, and you can drink this all fall and winter long.

Get the Cranberry Sangria recipe.

Our classic version of sangria is light and bubbly with an addition of seltzer water and the perfect ratio of wine to brandy. Skip the summer berries and swap in fall fruits like pears and apples to keep enjoying this summer classic all year long.

Get the Red Sangria recipe.

While it's more common in Spain to find red wine sangria, we love this lighter (both in color and on the palette) alternative to the original. This easy white-wine sangria recipe takes well to any fruit (so feel free to add your fave fall options). To make things even better, they get soaked in Grand Marnier (the orange liqueur often used in margaritas) too.

Get the White Sangria recipe.

The secret to the best white wine sangria? Moscato, of course! We added lemon-lime soda and seltzer for some bubbles, but both are optional.

Get the Moscato Sangria recipe.

Campari, that even-more-bitter cousin of Aperol, is what makes negronis so well balanced. Here, it gives sangria even more depth and flavor, perfect for transitioning from summer into fall.

Get the Campari Sangria recipe from Country Living.

After a long and languid summer, fall can be when your life starts to get busy again. Take it easy and make this super simple sangria—all you need is a good-quality juice blend (we're thinking orange-cranberry for fall) and a bottle of rosé wine, and you'll be good to go.

Get the 2-Ingredient Sangria recipe from The Pioneer Woman.

We already love sparkling red Lambrusco as a Thanksgiving dinner wine. And it pairs beautifully with Grand Marnier to make a balanced, light pre-dinner apertif.

Get the Lambrusco Sangria recipe from Country Living.