Recipes:
Miami Mommy Mojito
(Tall Glass)
Ingredients:
- 1 heaping tablespoon diced strawberries
- 1 tablespoon torn basil
- 1 lime, cut into small chunks with peel on
- 4 ounces Fre alcohol-removed White Zinfandel
- Splash of lemon-lime soda
- Muddle strawberries, basil and lime in the bottom of a tall glass.
- Add ice.
- Fill alcohol-removed White Zinfandel, and finish with a splash of lemon-lime soda.
First Crush
(Martini Glass)
Ingredients:
- 7 blueberries
- 3 large blackberries
- 4 raspberries
- 1/2 ounce simple syrup
- 4 ounces Fre alcohol-removed Merlot
- 1 sprig of mint
- With a muddler, gently press berries and simple syrup in the bottom of a martini glass, to release the flavors.
- Add Sutter Home merlot.
- Garnish with a sprig of mint.
Sparkling Pomegranate (Champagne Flute)
Ingredients:
- Fre Spumante sparkling alcohol-removed wine
- 1 teaspoon pomegranate seeds
- Dash blood orange bitters
- 1 ounce of pomegranate juice
- 1 ounce of simple syrup
- Rim champagne flute with sugar. Place 1/2 teaspoon of sugar into the bottom of a champagne flute.
- Soak sugar with bitters.
- Add pomegranate juice and Fre Spumante.
- Drop in pomegranate seeds.
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Blushing Bride
(Wine Glass)
Ingredients:
- 1 ounce rose-infused simple syrup
- 3 strawberries, diced
- 4 ounces Fre alcohol-removed White Zinfandel
- 1 ounce soda water
- Muddle strawberries and rose-infused simple syrup in mixing glass.
- Add ice and Sutter Home White Zinfandel, and shake vigorously.
- Strain into a wine glass and top with soda water.
- Garnish with a white rose on the top of the glass.
Citrusy Red Sangria Punch
Ingredients:
- 1 orange, cut into slices with peel on
- 1 lemon, cut into slices with peel on
- 1 lime, cut into slices with peel on
- 1/2 cup tangerine juice
- 1/2 cup pear cider
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 2 bottles Fre alcohol-removed Merlot
- Place cut fruit in a punch bowl and stir in tangerine juice, pear cider and sugar.
- Slowly add alcohol-removed wine.
- Cover and refrigerate at least 3 hours.
- Ladle it into wine goblets or punch cups when ready to serve.
About Fre:
Fre is a product made from wine grape in the same way wine is made and through a spinning come process the alcohol is removed. It is available all over the country in grocery stores and some wine shops. Locally, you can find it at Safeway, Raley's, Bev Mo! and many other stores.
The bottles look just like regular wine. Natalie uses it in many mocktail recipes, because it has the same body and bouquet as "fully-leaded" wine.
For more information, go to www.theliquidmuse.com
About Natalie Bovis-Nelsen:
Natalie Bovis-Nelsen is author of "Preggatinis," which has received great press since its release last year, including The Washington Post, Daily Candy, US Weekly, Pregnancy Magazine, The Bump, People (online) and more.
Natalie has appeared on major market television shows, including San Francisco, Phoenix, Seattle, Detroit, Miami and Houston.
She also has appeared on Better TV and, recently, was on Martha Stewart's radio show on Sirius. Natalie's second book, The Bubbly Bride, is coming out in January.
Earlier this year, Natalie created a variety of alcohol-free cocktails for Charlie and Brooke Sheen's baby shower, which were lauded by guests (Martin Sheen had three of them).
She also was interviewed for the first episode of Platinum Babies, which premiered on the WE Channel and was featured on E! Entertainment's morning show in November where she custom designed a Preggatini in honor of the E! celebs Kendra Wilkinson-Baskett and Kourtney Kardashian, who were both pregnant at the time.
In Hollywood, Natalie has become the "go to gal" for creating custom Preggatinis for celebrity baby showers.
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