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A few weeks back I got to attend a little party at The Ten Spot at the Bay on Queen West and try out Yellow Tail's latest offering, Moscato. This wine is slightly bubble (but not up their with a true bubbly wine) and pretty sweet (but not sickly sweet, more like ice wine toned down sweet). This combo or sweet, light and mild bubbles inspired me to create a Sangria recipe which I'd like to share with you today. 
sangria
Usually I like sangrias made with red wine, but when I tried this Moscato I instantly thought of Sangria, so I thought why not give it a try ( I mean the wine sells for $10.95 at the LCBO so it wasn't like I was throwing my money away). The first fruit I thought of that would go well with this was peaches, the second was cherries. So here is my recipe.

In a pitcher, mix together:
  • 1 bottle Yellow Tail Moscato wine
  • 1 litre of Soda Water (I have a SodaStream it works great)
  • 1 chopped Peach
  • a bunch of sliced and pitted Cherries (or just pitted, I don't have a pitter though so I sliced them up)
  • Ice to preference (or ice in your glasses)

Ok, so not so much a recipe as a bunch of stuff tossed together. You can clearly adjust this all to taste, but I did this and really liked it (so did my guests). It worked out so good. The peaches and cherries went well with the sweetness of the wine and the soda water helped mellow out the wines flavour and make it so I don't just down the wine too quickly on a hot day.
So now that I have talked about my favourite way to serve this wine to guests this summer (maybe on a  patio?), let us talk about what makes this a beauty post as well as a recipe post shall we?
Right now if you go to your LCBO and grab a bottle of Yellow Tail Moscato you will also get a free bottle of Nails Inc. Gel Effect Polish. That's right, this $10.95 bottle of wine can get you a $17.00 polish for free. So you really can't go wrong. This offer is only while supplies last, so you might want to run out and see if you can grab some polishes with your wine before it is too late. I plan on stocking up because this has officially become my summer entertaining drink (as well as the Malibu Stacy, because it is a classic to me).
*I was not compensated in any way for this post, I just thought I would share my favourite new recipe and a deal with you all.

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I recently placed a Pretty Tea order. At the time they offered a Mystery Box filled with 250g worth of tea or rock sugar for $25. I ordered two of the Mystery Boxes, one as a gift and one for me. I am going to show the teas I am keeping from the order.

Red Rum:
Ingredients: Honeybush, almonds, safflowers, almond, macadamia nut and rum flavour.
I don't have too much to say about this one, nice slice of almond in it.
Coconut Chai: 
Ingredients: Black tea , ginger root, green cardamom, chocolate chips and chocolate flavour.
This smells so coconuty....mmm.
Herbal Winter Elixir:
Ginger root, orange peel, mint leaves, eucalyptus, ginger and orange flavours.
This tea is touted as a cold remedy. I really like David's Tea's Cold 911 when I am sick, so I have high hopes for this one.
Lady in Blue:
Ingredients: Whole leaf black, blue mellow blossoms, lavender flowers and bergamot flavour.
All I smell when I first open this is lavender. The bergamot is not a very strong scent. 
Melon Lemonade:
Honeydew melon cubes (honeydew melon, sugar), apple pieces, hibiscus blossoms, orange slices, flavoring, acidifying agent: ascorbic acid.
This blend featured very large chunks of dried melon. I assume it will make a fantastic iced tea.
Almond Cookie:
Green tea (80%), orange slices, planed almonds, flavoring, pink peppercorns, safflower.
This tea smells like almonds, sweet sweet almonds. Amaretto is what I think it smells like (surprisingly amaretto is not made with almonds but apricot pits).
Maple Walnuts:
Sencha green tea (80%), walnuts, brittle pieces (sugar, hazelnuts, invert sugar), almond pieces, flavouring.
This tea has gigantic walnut halves in it, but not too many. Sort of odd. It smells good.
Lemon Rock Sugar:
Sugar, flavours. 
I like rock sugar, I do. I buy mine at Walmart or T&T in the tea section, but I pay less than $2.00 for a  bag with over 200g in it. This bag has 50g and I don't feel it will go very far. It does appeal to me for black tea.
Tea On The Beach:
Green tea (64%), lemon grass, pineapple cubes (pineapple, sugar), pineapple flakes, flavoring, freeze-dried acerola cherries, sour cherries, freeze-dried sour cherry pieces, safflowers.
This tea has pretty big pineapple chunks in it. It sounds like it will make a great iced tea in the summer time. Cherries, yum!
White Hibiscus:
Bai Mu Dan white tea, hibiscus, cornflowers, rose hips, with lychee, goji berry and cabernet flavors.
This tea comes in a bigger bag, since the teas are weighted some are physically bigger than others. I love hibiscus so this one makes me happy.  It also smells of lychees pretty strong and reminds me of the green lychee bubble teas I used to drink.
So that is the 10 items (9 teas and 1 sugar) I got in my Mystery Box. Now as I said, the mystery box no longer exists, but they still sell all of these teas on their site and in as little as 25g. I cannot wait to try them all out.

I found two codes that you can use to save if you want to do an order on their site.

FF10 to save 10% on an order  and 1FREESHIP on your first order. They do have free shipping on orders over $40. You can visit them at PrettyTea.ca .

As for now I am putting my teas in these containers I got at dollarama. I know I need to shield them from light, so I am going to keep it in my cabinet in the dark. 
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