We make big batches of this every year and give as some as gifts. But most of it goes towards making affordable sparkling wine into delicious cranberry kir royales, with the cranberry liqueur taking the place of traditional crme de cassis, at whatever holiday festivities we manage to pull together at our house. This has led to this concoction being called crme de cranberry by some. Of course, the real french would be crme de canneberge, but, somehow, that's less funny to my ear. Note that the wine in this recipe gets cooked. No need for anything fancy. You want something you could drink (i. E. No "Cooking wine"), but nothing more. Also, i like to use a decent-but-not-fancy brandy at the end for the added flavor notes, but plain vodka works just fine, especially if you're going to use the final liqueur to mix in cocktails.
