Looking for something to put fire in your belly when the temperature drops?

Tea, coffee and hot chocolate spring to mind, but sometimes you need a little something that gets right to your core. When you really need a boost of warmth from the inside a glühwein, or mulled wine, is the only way forward.

Many people look at glühwein as an laughably excuse to serve cheap wine to unfortunate guests. This is however not the case. Back in the day glühwein was originally designed to show off the wealth and generosity of a medieval household.

These days many pre-mulled, just-heat-it-up versions are available for sale, yet homemade glühwein wine is so easy to make, I urge you to give it a try.

For the wine, I suggest you use a bottle of Lookout Red from Leopard’s Leap.

Ingredients

750 ml Leopard’s Leap Lookout Red (available from most retail outlets countrywide)

75 ml sugar

50 ml lemon juice

150 ml orange juice

Cinnamon stick

6 – 8 cloves

Garnish

Cinnamon sugar on the rim of the glass.

Method

Mix all the ingredients in a small saucepan until just before boiling point.

Strain into a clean bowl.

Serve warm.