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Olly’s fab mulled wines—
It’s that time of year for deliciously warming boozy treats and Olly has the perfect recipes for his own mulled wine – red and white and a special mulled cider. As featured on Simon Mayo’s Drive Time, Tuesday 22 November.
Here are his recipes – time to get brewing!
Mulled Wine
1 bottle Red Wine (e.g. Cuvée Chasseur 2010 (France) Waitrose £4.10)
1 x cinammon stick
1 x star anise
half an orange studded with 3 cloves
1 x vanilla pod halved lengthways
50ml port (Taylor’s LBV 2005) 50ml
100ml fresh orange juice (no bits)
100g dark brown muscovado sugar
METHOD:
- Put the orange juice and sugar into a pan and stir. Warm until they are fully blended.
- Add the cinnamon stick, star anise, half orange studded with cloves, vanilla pod and leave to infuse for a minute.
- Add the bottle of red wine and port and warm gently for 10 minutes.
- Remove the orange and spices and serve warm
Warming White
1 bottle Fruity White Wine (e.g.Yalumba Viognier from Waitrose or Majestic)
thick half slice of fresh pineapple
a lemon wedge
100g white sugar
1 tablespoon runny honey
1 x cinammon stick
100 ml fresh pineapple juice
METHOD:
- Put the pineapple juice and sugar into a pan and stir. Warm until they are fully blended.
- Add the cinnamon stick, lemon wedge, runny honey and half slice pineapple and leave to infuse for a minute.
- Add the bottle of white wine and warm gently for 10 minutes.
- Remove the orange and spices and serve warm
MULLED CIDER – serves 2 -4
500ml cider (e.g. Aspalls)
200ml fresh apple juice
1 x lemon and ginger herbal tea bag
50ml Cointreau
1 x cinnamon stick
1 x heaped tablespoon muscovado dark brown sugar
half an orange studded with 3-4 cloves
METHOD:
- Put the apple juice and sugar into a pan and stir. Warm together until they are fully blended.
- Add the cinnamon stick and the half orange studded with cloves
- Then add the cider and cointreau and warm gently
- Put in the lemon & ginger teabag and leave to infuse for 2 minutes and then remove
- Warm, not boil for 10 min so all flavours infuse
- Serve warm
NB Please do not boil the drinks, this will make the spices bitter and you lose the booze!
If pre-preparing, remove spices and fruit and keep warm