Borgoña
Borgoña is a traditional Chilean cocktail made with red wine, chopped strawberries, and sugar. It is associated with the country's springtime Fiestas Patrias, as well as with summertime and Christmas. In 2011, a Chilean nutritionist calculated the number of calories in various traditional Chilean alcoholic beverages and determined that borgoña—at 250 calories per glass—was the fifth most caloric, after pihuelo, paxarette, chupilca, and cola de mono. The use of Fragaria chiloensis or the Chilean strawberry to make fermented beverages originates with the Mapuche people, as documented by the first cronistas such as Jerónimo de Vivar, who accompanied Pedro de Valdivia in the conquest of Chile, and who wrote in 1558:
Source: Wikipedia
Recipes
LIBATIONS: Borgoña, Chilean "Sangria" — blu aubergine
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