Mulled Wine Recipe

I knew this drink as a “Glintwein”, in English it’s more frequently called Mulled Wine. Quite a bit of ingredients and original taste. Love it!

Nice and warming.

Here are serving and garnishing examples

But seriously? Dry vanila sticks and anise stars in the glass? Or even wet vanila sticks and anise star…

Another thing - I don’t do orange or lemon, we don’t want it to be sour, just bitter. Orange skin is ok.

Ingredients and Preparation

Wine Types

Any cheap fruitty red wines would suit. Something like pino noir for example.

If the wine is a bit dry, like table wine - no problem, we are adding sugar anyway. Will add a bit more, to the taste.

Ingredients

• Red wine - 2 bottles (1.5 litres total)
• Sugar or honey - 100 g
• Apple - 1
• Orange skin - “skin only” from 1 orange
• Cinnamon - 1 stick
• Clove (Carnation) - 5
• Ginger - 1 tsp
• Nutmeg - 0.3 tsp
• Anise - 3 stars
• Cardamom (if want to replace of orange skin) - 0.5 tsp
• Black pepper (if want to replace ginger) - 2 peas
• Coniac - 50 ml

Cooking

Pour wine into a pot

Then add just sugar or honey, dissolve, and taste the wine - should be nice and semi-sweet, like black tea with 1 tsp of sugar.

Add chopped apple and spices and warm up wine with spices (without coniac) in COVERED pot. Do not simmer or boil. We don’t want to evaporate alcohol. So - 71 degrees Celsius max.

When up to the temperature - turn heat off. Add Coniac. Put lid back on. Leave it for 5 mins.

Then pour to glasses, do some garnishing if you like, and consume while it’s hot.

Serving

The “High level” serving example is on the top image. But come on! Any tea mug will do. Like these ones: