Quite belated, but happy new year! The holiday season may be over, but it’s still “cold season” both in terms of cold germs and cold temperatures so as far as I’m concerned, it’s still the right season for enjoying warm drinks. Specifically, mulled wine. This time I adapted my mulled red wine recipe to use a bottle of that Schwarz Katz riesling wine that comes in a cat-shaped bottle to make a mulled white wine. The result has enough citrus, ginger, and honey to likely cure the common cold, and enough white wine, rum, and spices to banish the winter blues, so definitely give it a try★[Continue Reading/続きを読む]
Mulled Wine (Hot Spiced Wine)
To be completely honest, even though I was born in the arctic (read: Minneapolis, Minnesota), I am not good with the cold, and for that very reason I have mixed feeling about the arrival of December. On the one hand, I like the Christmas season and all the lights and foods that transport me back to childhood, but on the other hand starting from December it just gets colder and colder in Tokyo and I am not about that life. However, as long as I have a batch of mulled wine (red wine heated with citrus, honey, and spices popular in the UK and Europe) to evoke the Christmas spirit and warm my body on cold nights, somehow I know that somehow I will make it through the winter, so today I’m posting a recipe for mulled wine that can be easily made with ingredients readily available in Japan. [Continue Reading/続きを読む]