Mulled wine recipe
With these tips you can make mulled wine yourself
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We reveal the best mulled wine recipe as well as helpful tips so that you can make mulled wine yourself. This way it will be better than at the Christmas market.
Mulled wine recipe: This is how you can make mulled wine yourself
Ingredients for 4 cups
- 1 bottle of red wine (0.7 l)
- 100 ml orange juice
- 75 grams of rock candy
- 1 packet of vanilla sugar
- 2 star anise
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 6 cloves
- 4 mini oranges (kumquats)
preparation
- Heat the red wine, orange juice, sugar, vanilla sugar and the spices in a large saucepan over a low heat for about 10 minutes. Then let it steep on the lowest level for about 50 minutes.
- Then rinse the mini oranges with hot water, cut them into slices and divide them into four glasses.
- Pour the mulled wine through a sieve into the glasses and serve immediately.
tip: Put the spices in a tea bag or a tea infuser and cook, then remove. So you don’t have to laboriously remove the spices later.
Which wine is suitable for mulled wine?
Mulled wine with red wine
If you want to use a classic red mulled wine recipe, you should go for a perfect balance of acidity, sweetness and fruitiness semi-dry to dry red wines put. Because the sweetness of sugar and fruit juice is perfectly balanced by a slightly tart note of the wine.
These wines are good choices:
- Italian Merlot
- Spanish tinto
- German Dornfelder
- German trollinger
- Pinot Noir
Mulled wine with white wine
It is no wonder that white mulled wine is becoming increasingly popular in this country too. It offers a light, fresh alternative to the classic. Its fruity aroma and higher acidity provide a welcome change.
Semi-dry to dry wines, such as:
- Müller-Thurgau
- Silvaner
- Pinot Blanc
- Riesling
- Pinot Grigio
Which spices for mulled wine?
Opinions differ on spices: While some prefer a strong spicy aroma in the mulled wine recipe, others leave it with a subtle note.
Classic, as in our mulled wine recipe, is the mulled wine with Cloves, cinnamon sticks, star anise and cardamom seasoned. Other popular spices for hot wine are:
- pimento
- Vanilla pods
- ginger
- nutmeg
- Coriander (seed)
- Juniper berries
But you can also experiment with fennel seeds, bay leaves, red pepper berries and mace.
Sweeten mulled wine
When refining your mulled wine recipe with citrus fruits, it can happen that the mulled wine becomes bitter if the wine already has a certain acidity and the spices provide a strong aroma. Then sweeten it with Cane sugar, honey or agave syrup after. Or try it for a change Jam (e.g. orange jam) or juices. Even port wine can give the drink a pleasant sweetness, but increases the alcohol content.
Make mulled wine spice yourself
If you want to make mulled wine yourself more often or need a gift you have made yourself, then you can also make your own mulled wine spice and fill it in small glasses.
All you need are the following ingredients:
- 10 pieces of cardamom pods
- 8 pieces of star anise
- 15 pieces of cloves
- 10 pieces of allspice grains
- 1 cinnamon stick
- ½ teaspoon nutmeg (ground)
- 1 tbsp whole cane sugar
The rest of the instructions can be found in the recipe.
Why not let the mulled wine boil?
If you make mulled wine yourself, you should make sure that the mulled wine never heated above 80 ° C or is boiled. Because from 78 ° C the alcohol begins to evaporate. In addition, the heat has a negative effect on the spices in the mulled wine recipe and can change the aroma.
How long does mulled wine have to go through?
The longer infuse your mulled wine with the spices in the pot, the more intensely the aromas spread and the typical Christmas taste can develop. You should let it steep for at least an hour.
Mulled wine with a shot: which alcohol goes well with mulled wine?
At the Christmas market it is usually part of the mulled wine: the “shot”. It means that different spirits are added to the mulled wine. They take care of a special aroma in hot wine and make it even more potent. Strictly speaking, a mulled wine with a shot is a punch. But where exactly the differences are, we explain below.
This “shot” goes well with your mulled wine recipe:
- Sweet liqueur (Cointreau, Amaretto)
- grain
- vodka
- brown rum
- grappa
Difference: mulled wine, punch, Glögg & Co.
Glögg, the Scandinavian hot drink in winter time, contains red wine and spices as well Grain or vodka. grog turn will be off hot water, sugar and rum prepared.
Punch is now rounded off with Arrak, a spirit from the Southeast Asian region. It also contains lemon, sugar and spices. Tea or water is used as the basis for this hot drink. But hot mulled wine mixed with high percentage alcohol or tea with juice and Christmas flavors is also called punch.
Make alcohol-free mulled wine yourself
The so-called children’s punch is made from tea, fruit juice and pieces of fruit. Again, spices such as cinnamon sticks and cloves are essential. Children’s punch is not only a delicious drink for the little ones, but is also a good choice if you want to avoid alcohol.
Here you can experiment to your heart’s content with different types of tea and fruit juices: They are delicious different types of fruit tea as well as apple juice and cherry juice. For a non-alcoholic mulled wine recipe, simply replace the wine in our recipe with lilacberry or cherry juice for dark punch or try our recipe for apple punch!
More mulled wine recipes
Would you like more mulled wine recipes? Here you will find a delicious selection.
