Macerated Berries with Mint and Red Wine | Experience Life

Ingredients

• 2 quarts freshly picked strawberries, hulled and washed
• 1 bottle (750 ml) dry Italian red wine (a good Chianti works well)
• 2/3 cup sugar, more or less to taste
• Zest of 1 orange, taken off the fruit with a 'strip zester' (strips of zest should be about 1/16 of an inch wide)
• Juice of 1 orange
• 1 piece cinnamon
• 4 cloves
• 1 cup loosely packed fresh mint leaves