Henbo's Australia Day White Peach Sangria

Serves: However many glasses in a big soup pot

Ingredients:

1 x 800-ish gram can peaches in syrup
1.5 cups vodka
3 x punnet strawberries - sliced
3 x peaches (or nectarines or whatever fruit you fancy) - sliced
2 x 750ml bottles dry white
Lemonade
Soda Water
Fresh lime

Method

Blend the peaches in their syrup and ass (or add) this to the strawberries, peaches and vodka. Soak overnight. In the morning add the white wine, lemonade, soda and lime to taste. If I were to guess I'd say I used about 2 cups each of lemonade and soda and squeezed in 3/4 of a fresh lime. I left the skin in for flavour. Bon drinketit!

'Straya

Australia Day Sat 26th January saw the team and I heading to the Dirtybird showcase at The Ivy. Well what a strange day indeed. We arrived after numerous tankards of my White Peach Sangria and made it in to find ourselves amongst one of the strangest crowds I've ever experienced. There were 18y/o grommits fresh from Dee Why. There were 50y/o women clutching vodka's with a gaggle of friends. There was a table of oldies playing chess. Lots of girls with coloured hair. One lady had a mangled looking peacock outfit on, complete with a dismal looking tail feather display. The toilet queue was abysmal. the best part about the whole thing was Claude himself. I'm not very crowd tolerant but my friends up the front were given beers and vodka from the man himself, who not only played at Chinese Laundry after the Ivy but also somewhere else after that. The man clearly knows how to partay.

Chinese laundry is smaller that I remembered - like when you go back to visit primary school and you giggle at the tiny wee toilets. It was so loud I was having heart palpitations - NOT due to my age I checked. I managed to snap this pic amongst my wandering around half cut. Good day :)