Cranberry Juice

Cranberry juice is a clear, ruby-red liquid pressed from cranberries. It tastes intensely tart with a brisk, tannic edge and brings bright acidity that holds up to sugar and spice in both sweet and savory recipes. Cooks use it to shake cocktails, make vinaigrettes, deglaze pans, reduce to syrup, and glaze meats; it is sold as 100% unsweetened juice, blends, or shelf-stable concentrates.\n\nNorth American cranberries are native to bogs of the northeastern United States and Canada, and large-scale juicing expanded with 20th-century mechanical pressing and pasteurization. Major production comes from Wisconsin, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Oregon, Washington, Quebec, and British Columbia, and the juice features widely in American cuisine and global cocktail culture.