White wine mulled wine

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare all the necessary products. Take high-quality wine from a reliable manufacturer: any wine from dry to semi-sweet will do. Lemon and orange should be fresh, in addition to these fruits, you can take some other fruits, apples and pears are perfect. I don't take ground spices, just dried whole ones - they are much more fragrant. In principle, you can take ground spices, but then the finished drink will have to be filtered through a fine sieve.

2. Step 2:

   

   Pour the wine into a pot for making mulled wine and add spices: whole or ground. Spices can also be completely different, if you are a lover of more spicy drinks, you can replace or supplement the ones I suggested: vanilla or vanilla sugar, ginger (ground or root), nutmeg, cloves (can also be bud or ground) are perfect for mulled wine. Focus on your taste!

3. Step 3:

   

   Add sugar to your taste. Don't overdo it with sugar! Pay attention to what kind of wine you have. If the wine is semi-sweet, then you will need less sugar or not at all. If it's dry, then you can have more sweets. Although, for my taste, even for dry wine, you can do without sugar.

4. Step 4:

   

   Wash lemon and orange well. It is best even with a brush, because we will use them together with the peel. I also advise washing fruits with very hot water - then citrus fruits will give the drink more juice. Cut the lemon into half circles.

6. Step 5:

   

   Also cut the orange into half circles.

7. Step 6:

   

   Add the sliced fruit to the saucepan to the wine. Gently heat over low heat.

8. Step 7:

   

   As soon as the first bubbles appear, remove the mulled wine from the fire. Cover with a lid and let it brew and cool slightly for 10 minutes. Then strain the finished drink. You can use a colander or, if you had ground spices, strain through a fine sieve or through cheesecloth.

9. Step 8:

   

   Mulled wine is of course a winter drink, perfectly warming in cold weather, especially in nature. But it is very tasty both hot and cold. Bon appetit!