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Winey Mary: Blood Mary meets Red Wine

Our Improve Cooking Challenge puts two ingredients together and challenges us to make a dish with those ingredients!  For February we were challenged to make something from red wine and Italian seasoning!  For my submission, I recreated a cocktail I had long ago when my husband and I ate at a steak restaurant in Minneapolis. It was called a Winey Mary.


According to various resources on the web, a Winey Mary is a Bloody Mary that uses red wine as part of the ingredients.  My concoction includes Italian seasoning and I think it is a winner!  I hope you do, too.

Winey Mary

Winey Mary is a Bloody Mary and red wine. Garnish this with meatballs!


4 oz red wine
3 oz vodka
2 oz Bloody Mary Mix
1 t lemon juice
1 t pepperoncini juice
1 t Italian seasoning
1 t A-1 sauce

In a shaker glass, combine all the ingredients and shake until ingredients are blended and cold. Pour into a pint glass filled halfway with ice.  Garnish with your favorite Bloody Mary garnish. You can also rim the glass with celery salt.

Favorite garnishes:

Meatballs on a stick (to carry through the Italian theme)
Candied bacon
Celery stick with the leaves still attached

I consider a Bloody Mary an any-time-of-the-year cocktail, so you can make this now or save it for the summer. This would be a great appetizer for a BBQ!  Mix it up for a Girls Night Out or a Game Night with friends. I would even serve this at a Sunday Brunch.  What about you?

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Improv Cooking Challenge: February 2019

Ingredients: Wine and Italian Seasoning

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  1. This would be a drink my husband would enjoy. I can't wait to show the recipe to him.

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  2. This sounds like a great drink. I need to give this a taste and see if I like it. I do like that there is candied bacon!

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  3. Interesting. I have been known to indulge in a Bloody Mary from time to time but have never tried it with win. Oh yeah so trying this for our next brunch.

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  4. This is a recipe that my friends would love. Looking forward to making this for our next brunch.

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  5. We don't drink any kind of alcohol so this is not something we would make. Sure some of our friends would enjoy making and enjoying this drink.

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  6. Now this sounds like such a delicious drink, what a great mix of flavours included it in. I could imagine making it for a party for sure!

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  7. My husband can never pass up a good Bloody Mary, especially if it includes candied bacon! Since your recipe involves red wine, I think I'll have to give it a try too.

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  8. I'm not too sure about this. lol It might be too much for me although I'm sure other people would enjoy it.

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  9. Bloody Mary is my favorite drink. I've never had the wine version though.

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  10. A Bloody Mary with red wine?? Interesting...I may have to try this!

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  11. This sounds interesting! I think I would really like the combination.

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  12. Wow! This recipe making me so amazed! I really love the uniqueness of this drink. Love this so much!

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  13. This looks delicious and I'm not even a bloody mary fan. I will have to try this out soon.

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  14. My mom would so love this recipe when she has her group meetings.

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  15. Anonymous12:21 PM

    Somehow I never tried a Bloddy Mary. I don't drink often, but I would be willing to give this one a try!

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  16. This sounds like a really interesting drink. I've never actually tried a Bloody Mary but the other half loves them :)

    Louise x

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  17. This sounds like a great drink. I need to give this a try and see if I like it. Can't wait!

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  18. This is very creative! What a fun challenge, I like the ideas of meatballs as a garnish. I have never had a bloody mary before. It does seem like the perfect addition for Sunday brunch.

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  19. Sweetie and BIL would probably love this one. Thinking Babushka will have to introduce them to the recipe soon. Great combo of ingredients.

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