Strawberry-Champagne Granita with Macerated Berries - Andrew Zimmern

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 pounds strawberries, hulled and quartered
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• One 750-milliliter bottle chilled rosé Champagne
• 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
• 2 quarts freshly picked strawberries, hulled and washed
• One 750-milliliter bottle dry red Italian wine (a good Chianti works well)
• 2/3 cup sugar, or more or less to taste
• Zest of 1 orange, taken off the fruit with a ‘strip zester,’ making long strips of zest about a 1/16-inch wide
• Juice of 1 orange
• 1 piece cinnamon
• 4 cloves
• 1 handful of fresh mint sprigs secured with string