Pomegranate Grapefruit Frosé

Recipes like the frosé are designed for experimentation, so let your imagination take you new places and explore all the possibilities.

• You can make it using different flavors of vodka and juice. When doing so, continue to pour 3 ounces of wine and use 2 1/2 ounces total for all the other liquid ingredients.
• Play around with various fruit vodkas and add complementary juices to your heart's desire. It's difficult to come up with a bad combination and you can spend the entire summer coming up with unique cocktails. For example, Van Gogh Vodka has another recipe for a tasty raspberry frosé. This one pours 1 1/2 ounces raspberry vodka with 1/2 ounce each lemon juice and simple syrup.
• A very fun idea for any frosé is to freeze the wine in ice cube trays and use the wine cubes instead of clear ice. It's a perfect way to preserve wine that's a little too old for drinking. The alcohol content of wine is low enough so the cubes should freeze up overnight. Not enough wine cubes? Simply make up the difference with regular ice.
• As with many summer drinks—particularly blended ones—nothing says you can't add fresh fruit to this recipe. Berries, peaches, and melons would all make great additions to any frosé and almost any combination of fruits will work perfectly. Start out with no more than 1/2 cup of fresh fruit and cut larger fruits into 1-inch chunks. Adding volume might mean you'll end up with two drinks from a single blender. If you have too much for your prepared glass, stick the leftover in the freezer until you're ready for another round.
• Any of the varieties of fruit you add fresh or as juice to this drink can also be addedin the form of a liqueur. Melon liqueurs like Midori add flavor and a fun green color. Blue curaçao will add hints of orange and make the drink blue. Strawberry, apricot, and raspberry liqueurs are other great options to try.
• You can even add a rich background with a shot of amaretto or bring in a floral touch with a liqueur like St. Germain.
• Yet another way to add a new layer of flavor to your frosé is with a flavored simple syrup. For the pomegranate-grapefruit combo, a nice herbal syrup like lavender or rosemary would be an excellent touch. Mint is a fun idea as well and, if you want to add a little spice, a splash of jalapeno syrup will do just fine.