With the onset of cold weather, warmed wine with spices is becoming more and more popular. Properly brewed mulled wine helps to keep warm in inclement weather, it is an excellent drink for parties and social gatherings.
There are a great variety of mulled wine recipes and each bartender brews it based on their own ideas about what an ideal hot wine should be. For sweetness, it is customary to add honey and sugar, for aroma - various spices and fruits. Mulled wine is brewed not only from red, but also from white wine.
To prepare a weak tasty mulled wine for 6-7 servings, you will need 1 liter of dry red wine (you can take a semi-sweet one, but the dry one will be more aromatic), 400 ml of orange juice or juice of 2-3 freshly squeezed oranges, 2 stars of anise, 2 green apples, 2 -3 cinnamon sticks (ground cinnamon to taste), 3-4 clove buds, sugar or honey to taste. Honey is considered more useful and adds noble warmth to mulled wine.
Wine and juice should be placed in a convenient saucepan or ladle, put on the slowest possible heat. In the resulting cocktail, you must immediately add all the spices, honey and fruits and cook over low heat, without bringing to a boil and stirring constantly.
As soon as steam begins to flow from the drink, it should be removed from the heat and held for a couple of minutes under a covered lid, and then poured into convenient mugs (either glass mugs, which are sold specifically for hot cocktails, or into ordinary glass glasses with a handle). You should not pour mulled wine into crystal glasses, as the crystal can crack under the influence of hot drinks.
You can decorate a glass of mulled wine with a cinnamon stick and a chopped circle of orange or tangerine.
