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Cocktail recipe

Mulled Wine

A built cocktail featuring White wine, Orange juice, Clove.

Mulled Wine cocktail

Ingredients

  • 1000 ml White wine
  • 90 ml Orange Juice
  • 2 piece Orange
  • 7 Clove
  • 1 Star anise
  • 50 Sugar
  • 60 ml Brandy
  • 3 Candied Ginger

Method

  1. Use a saucepan large enough for the batch. Add the wine, orange juice, cloves, star anise, and optional orange slices and candied ginger.
  2. Heat gently, uncovered, to infuse the spices; keep below a simmer and do not boil.
  3. Stir in the measured sugar (50 grams for the base batch) until dissolved.
  4. Remove from the heat and stir in the brandy.
  5. Strain into heatproof mugs and serve warm without ice.
  6. Optional garnish: cinnamon stick, orange slice.

Story

Spiced, heated wine goes back to the Romans, whose conditum paradoxum was sweetened with honey and spiced with pepper. Every northern European country has a winter version.