Our April newsletter went out this past week, and I feel like I jumped the gun a bit.  It was so warm for the last two weeks of March that I was ready for some cooling recipes!  In the newsletter I shared the recipe for this Huzzah Wine Smoothie:

This was so yummy and fruity!  All the fruit cut down on the sweetness of the wine too, so that was nice for me since I don’t like super sweet wine.  But if you are the opposite, then just add a bit of sugar to the blender to bring the sweetness back up.  Also, this was pretty thick, so you might want to add more wine or water to thin it down a bit.  We just used spoons to eat ours though and enjoyed it just as much.

I promised that I’d share a creamy tropical drink this weekend, and wouldn’t you know we are back to springtime temperatures now!  Oh well.  Save this one for when it heats back up into the 90′s again.  So here is a picture of the second wine smoothie I made:

This was delicious too.  I used Courtois in this recipe since the fruit juices are so sweet, but feel free to use Harvest Mist, Whittenburg or Sweet River White if you like those better.  I’d stay away from the Dry Creek for this recipe though as I don’t think the oak flavors in that wine would pair well with all the tropical fruits in this smoothie.  Hope you enjoy these at some point this spring or summer!

Courtois Wine Smoothie

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup apricot juice
• 1/3 cup pineapple juice
• 1 cup Courtois
• 1 frozen banana, cut into medium size chunks
• 1/2 cup yogurt
• 1-2 handfuls of ice