Simple Mulled Wine Recipe

Mulled wine is quickly becoming a staple of traditional fall/winter drinks. It’s warm, comforting, sweet, fruity, tart… and WINE!! This is a mulled wine recipe that was made in a solar oven from GoSun, but you could also use a slow cooker (crockpot) or stove top.

Our solar oven is a large oven that can cook many things like cinnamon buns, pizza, stir fry, chili, etc. But we’ve found it’s amazing for keeping hot drinks, hot for winter parties; as it stays cool to the touch. You just open it up and ladle out your drink. Like a punch bowl for hot drinks! If you’re interested in trying a solar oven, they have various sizes and they are all amazing. You can check them out here, and save 15% sitewide by using coupon code AMBAEW1 at checkout.

Many recipes add brandy, honey, sugar, star anise, and various other spices, to give many different flavors. However this is a good basic mulled wine recipe to get you started. Experiment adding different ingredients. Don’t worry, you can’t really mess it up. Enjoy!

Mulled Wine Recipe

A simple, traditional mulled wine recipe that is easy to make.

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Prep Time 5 minutes mins

Cook Time 30 minutes mins

Servings 6 glasses

Equipment

• Solar oven (or slow cooker/crockpot)

Ingredients

  

• 1 bottle red wine Your choice! (we usually choose a fruitier one like Merlot or Zinfandel)
• 1 stick cinnamon
• 1 inch ginger Can use ground ginger, and mix it in
• 1/8 tsp nutmeg
• 1 peel orange We prefer a mandarin orange
• 1/4 cup honey

Optional

• Various spices You'll see many recipes add various spices like cloves, star anise, cardamom, and so on. We just prefer it a little less overpowering. So experiment and have fun!
• Brandy Many recipes add extra liquor, and brandy seems to be the most popular, but any liqueur will do

Instructions

 

• Combine all ingredients
  
• Place in your cooking apparatus, in this case a solar oven, and allow to heat and simmer for 30 minutes
• Keep on low (or whatever temperature you want to drink it at) while serving

Notes

Garnish your mulled wine with whatever you like: Common garnishes are an orange slice, cinnamon stick, and star anise. Star anise is a unique spice that seems to divide people on if they like it or not. Adding it after cooking as a garnish, is a great way to cater to people who want it, without adding it to the entire batch. Plus it looks festive!