Fruit Cocktail

• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1 whole vanilla bean, halved and scraped
• 5 stalks rhubarb, 4 coarsely chopped, 1 cut into into 1/4 inch slices
• 1 pint fresh strawberries, hulled and halved
• 4 ounces brandy
• 1 bottle sparkling rose
• 1 cup red wine
• 1 tablespoon superfine sugar
• 2 limes, juiced

1. In a saucepan, combine granulated sugar, 1 cup water, and the vanilla bean. Simmer until sugar dissolves, turn off heat, and add chopped rhubarb. Cover for 5 minutes. Break up rhubarb with a spoon and set aside for 30 minutes, then strain.
2. Crush 12 berries in the brandy in a bowl; let sit for 30 minutes. Strain. combine brandy mixture, rose, red wine, superfine sugar, lime juicek, and the rhubarb syrup in a pitcher, and stir in the rhubarb slices and rest of the strawberries.

sugar, vanilla bean, stalks rhubarb, fresh strawberries, brandy, sparkling rose, red wine, sugar

Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/fruit-cocktail-50031844 (may not work)