The time is right for mulled wines, decadent hot chocolates, special coffees and restorative lemon honey drinks. Warren Elwin makes them hot and French.
Ingredients
| 1 bottle | Red wine (Main) |
| 1 cup | Port |
| 1 | Star anise |
| 1 Tbsp | Sugar |
| 3 | Cloves |
| 2 | Cardamom pods |
| 1 piece | Cinnamon, use a small piece |
| 5 | Peppercorns, whole, ligthly crushed |
| 1 | Lemon, freshly zested |
| 1 | Orange, freshly zested |
Directions
- To a saucepan add red wine (don't waste the good stuff), port, sugar, star anise, cloves, cardamom pods, cinnamon, peppercorns and the lemon and orange zest.
- Gently heat until just simmering and strain to serve. If you can make it in advance, turn off the heat and leave to mull for the flavours to develop. Re-heat to serve.