Mulled Spiked Wine from Lolinda Recipe

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Lauren Sloss
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Lauren Sloss
Lauren Sloss is a freelance journalist and a Bay Area-native whose serious eater status was sealed when she tried Brie for the first time at the age of 6. She wrote for Serious Eats from 2011–2015.
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Updated Aug. 30, 2018
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"I have a huge fondness for mulled wine," says Chris Lane, the bar manager at San Francisco's Lolinda. Lane's recipe is an old school one adapted from Jerry Thomas, with the important addition of rum added to each glass. You can opt out if you choose, says Lane: "There is a little more wiggle room for individual taste in punches like this one, versus carefully constructed cocktails, he says. "You can kind of feel your way around the flavors instead of being tied to precise measurements."

"I use either Smith and Cross or Banks rum," he says. "Try something that has guts!" For the wine, use something fruit forward like Syrah or Malbec.

Recipe Details

Mulled Spiked Wine from Lolinda Recipe

Active 10 mins
Total 30 mins
Serves 8 servings

Ingredients

  • 1 lemon

  • 12 ounces water

  • 12 whole cloves

  • 4 whole star anise pods

  • 4 cinnamon sticks

  • 1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg

  • 1 bottle dry red wine

  • 18 ounces ruby port

  • 4 ounces raw sugar

  • 1 whole orange, quartered

  • 8 ounces aged rum

  • Garnish: 8 cinnamon sticks, 8 lemon wheels

Directions

  1. Remove lemon peel using a vegetable peeler, trying to get as little of the white pith as possible. Quarter lemon and squeeze juice from 2 of the quarters into a glass or measuring cup to yield about 3/4 of an ounce. Reserve remaining quarters.

  2. Bring water to a simmer. Add cloves, star anise, cinnamon sticks, and nutmeg to water to make an infusion. Reduce heat to a bare simmer and cook for 10 minutes. Add red wine, port, sugar, orange quarters, reserved lemon quarters, lemon juice, and lemon peel. Let simmer for another 10 minutes.

  3. Remove from heat and strain out spices and citrus. Return to very low heat and keep warm.

  4. Pour 1 ounce of rum into each serving mug, top with hot mulled wine. Garnish each glass with cinnamon slick and lemon wheel.

Special equipment

fine mesh strainer, mugs

Nutrition Facts (per serving)
185 Calories
0g Fat
18g Carbs
0g Protein
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Nutrition Facts
Servings: 8
Amount per serving
Calories 185
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 0g 0%
Saturated Fat 0g 0%
Cholesterol 0mg 0%
Sodium 210mg 9%
Total Carbohydrate 18g 7%
Dietary Fiber 0g 1%
Total Sugars 15g
Protein 0g
Vitamin C 2mg 10%
Calcium 20mg 2%
Iron 0mg 2%
Potassium 57mg 1%
*The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a food serving contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.
(Nutrition information is calculated using an ingredient database and should be considered an estimate.)