mulled wine – the best recipe for winter cheer

A coffee cup filled with mulled wine is just the thing to get you through carol concerts, freezing cold rugby matches and Christmas shopping – as long as you’re not driving. It may make you ugly cry a bit more during the Joni Mitchell CD scene in Love Actually (is that just me who doesn’t feel like Christmas has started until I’ve done that?). Here’s how you can have have delicious mulled wine within seconds.

And as if that wasn’t enough, making a batch of homemade mulled wine makes your house smell better than any scented candle and you get a drink at the end of it – handy if you need to get rid of any less festive smells (or grumps) before guests arrive.

The problem with most mulled wine recipes is that by the time your spices have infused into the wine, all the alcohol has boiled off. I am assuming that by now you know that in my book that is A.Very.Bad.Thing.