Place the rounds into a medium heavy-bottomed pot or small Dutch oven. Slice one orange into rounds and slice the other in half. Optional garnishes: Fresh whole cranberries (about ¼ cup), cinnamon sticks, additional orange rounds or half moons.ġ.1 to 2 tablespoons sweetener, maple syrup or honey.1 bottle of a fruit-forward red wine like Merlot or Grenache.Most wines will work, but try Grenache, Tempranillo, Valpolicella, Sangiovese, Merlot and warm-climate Pinot Noir that are unoaked, or aged in neutral oak. Look instead for balance between the mulling ingredients and the wine’s fruitiness. But the spice and citrus added, not to mention sugar and brandy, will thwart any subtleties of a spicy wine. You might be tempted to use big, “spicy” wines that reflect the ingredients that will be infused. Light-bodied wines can get lost amid the intensity of mulling spices, while very jammy, full-bodied wines can become cloying. Steer clear of oaky or overly tannic wines, which can turn bitter when heated. Most mulled wines are traditionally made with reds, and the best red for mulled wine is fresh, dry, juicy and medium-bodied. “The spices were filtered through a bag known to apothecaries as a manicum hippocraticum-the sleeve of Hippocrates, which gave the drink its name,” writes Breverton. Other medieval-era mulled drinks include Hippocras gyle, which according to The Tudor Kitchen by Terry Breverton was a spice mixture of galangal, cardamom, cinnamon, grains of paradise, cubebs and long pepper infused in wine. Mulled drinks “date back to the first century, when a Roman gourmand Apicus wrote of ‘conditum paradoxum,’ a white wine with honey, saffron, mastica and black pepper,” shares The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails. The BEST mulled wine recipe A very special Buttonwood mulled wine recipe with our 2017 Estate Merlot It has become a tradition that every Winter in the Buttonwood tasting room, we serve up hot, delicious mulled wine. Popular versions include glühwein, a traditional German variety France’s vin chaud and Norwegian gløgg, which features the country’s national spirit, aquavit. To make it, wine is heated along with spices that commonly include cinnamon, allspice, ginger and black pepper. Mulled wine is a type of hot, boozy drink that is sweetened and spiced. Here’s everything you need to know about this cold-weather staple. Add apple brandy, cranberries, red wine, and a splash of brandy in your slow cooker to brew this mulled wine. It’s perhaps for this reason that mulled wine is especially popular during the winter holidays. It’s an intoxicating scent that immediately rockets the mind to days spent bundled up outdoors, rollicking in the snow, only to come inside to warm up with a mugful of something warm and alcoholic.
There’s nothing quite like the spice-laden perfume of mulled wine warming on a stovetop. Decorative Wine Racks & Modular Systems.
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