Recipes

MULLED WINE

The absolute best thing about these cold winter days (haha, or should I say: the only nice thing? Moeha, team always cold, remember?) is standing in the bitter cold with your love (oh no, I don't have one) with a mug of steaming mulled wine. Mulled wine, hugely popular, but oh oh oh, this word makes me itch; I can't handle it. Can we just call it mulled wine from now on? Sounds so much sexier and takes me back to my time in The States. Win-win.

I find it the coziest to take a good walk during these cold winter days and end up somewhere outside on a terrace, okay, team always cold, so let's just do it inside in a small brown café and drink this warm winter wine. But even if you don't want to go outside these days, you can enjoy this drink. It's so simple and looks so cozy. Make the wine in a nice large pot, ladle it in, and serve... Just be careful: take that walk first, because it's a sneaky bastard and after a few glasses, you won't be walking in a straight line home.

“ladle it in, and serve...”

Ingredients for a good pot:

– 2 bottles of red wine (Cabernet Sauvignon)

– 1 orange with cloves

– 2 orange slices

– 2 lemon slices

– 6 tbsp sugar or honey

– 2 cinnamon sticks

– piece of ginger (4 cm) grated

– 2 tbsp Cointreau

Preparation:

Put all the ingredients in a large pot along with 1 liter of water and set the pot over medium heat. Keep stirring until the sugar melts. Let the pot sit on the heat for at least twenty minutes, but make sure the wine doesn't boil. Otherwise, the alcohol will evaporate and we don't want that.

Serve the wine in a sturdy glass and garnish it with an orange slice and a cinnamon stick.