Anne's Lip Smackin' Sangria

• 12 cup water
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 1 lemon
• 2 bananas
• 2 oranges
• 2 (750 ml) bottles red wine
• ice
• sliced fruit, to garnish (oranges, limes lemons etc.) (optional)

1. Boil water, sugar and the cinnamon stick over medium-high for 5 minutes.
2. Let syrup cool with cinnamon stick in mixture.
3. Slice lemon and orange.
4. Peel and slice bananas.
5. Remove cinnamon stick, add lemon, orange, and banana slices to cooled syrup.
6. Cover and chill several hours.
7. Put ice in punch bowl, add sliced fruit (optional), the cinnamon/fruit syrup, and wine.
8. (you may need to half this into 2 pitchers if you don't have a punch bowl).
9. Stir thoroughly, mashing the fruit slightly.
10. Serve Sangria in chilled glasses.
11. (If you only make one pitcher additional sangria syrup may be saved in the refrigerator for 1 month).
12. Optional: to make a white sangria use a Chablis or Chardonney for the red wine.
13. (Fresh fruit can be substituted for frozen concentrates using a tablespoon at a time of orange juice concentrate and limeade concentrate to cinnamon syrup until the desired flavor is reached.
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water, sugar, cinnamon, lemon, bananas, oranges, bottles red wine, fruit

Taken from www.food.com/recipe/annes-lip-smackin-sangria-344555 (may not work)