Traditional Mulled Wine

Fancy a comforting hot drink to share? Discover our recipe for traditional mulled wine. There's nothing like a traditional Alsatian mulled wine with intoxicating aromas to brighten up those short winter days. A homemade mulled wine!

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Mulled wine recipe

PrEparation: 15 mInS | COOKING: 5 mInS | serves: 8

vin chaud traditionnel

Ingredients

1l red wine
1/3 fresh ginger
2 cloves
1 cinnamon stick
1 pinch of nutmeg
1 star anise
1 orange
1 apple
1 citron
100g caster sugar (or brown sugar)

PrEparation

Wash and dry the fruit (or only use the zest of the citrus fruit, whatever your prefer).
Next cut them into slices, or quarters if you want to eat them.
Put them in a saucepan and add the wine, sugar and spices.
Heat over a low heat until simmering. It is important that the wine does not boil.
Remove the pan from the heat and leave to stand for 5 minutes with a lid on.
Serve hot with a slice of citrus fruit for a personal touch!

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Which wine to use for mulled wine?

Choose light, gourmet red wines for your mulled wine. Choose a Pinot Noir from Alsace or a red wine from Loire. Reserve top-of-the-range wines for pretty tables and indulge yourself with simple, young wines. It would be a pity to use a complex, old wine or a grand cru, as the ingredients in mulled wine bring a variety of aromas that add to those of the wine. A wine costing less than £10 from our selection will do the trick.

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Alsatian cakes with homemade mulled wine

Enjoy your homemade mulled wine with Alsatian sweets, to keep with tradition! Gingerbread, shortbread, the famous stollen and bredele. Bredele, bredle, braedele, or bredala or Winachtsbredele are little baked biscuits made for the festive season and eaten over the following months, as long as you don't eat them all at Christmas! These little Alsatian cakes come in all sorts of flavours: chocolate, apricot, aniseed, cherry, walnut, and so on. The best thing is to make them yourself, just like mulled wine!