Imagine that it’s winter out there with new-fallen snow you are with your family and friends in front of a lit fireplace with a glass of steaming mulled wine in hand, it does not get any better than that!

 

Mulled wine is a wine-based drink, which is spiced and usually served hot.

At least until a few years ago when Blossa began putting a new fashion for mulled wine in the vintage mulled wine which has become a new favorite of the Swedes that can be enjoyed both hot and cold.

 

To drink hot spiced wine has roots in antiquity, where Greeks and Romans started to put spices in their wine, for health reasons and for improve the taste.

Already during the Middle Ages people in the north drank  warm wine, but mainly during the winter.

Our own King Gustav Vasa enjoyed a glas of Klaret, which consists of Rhine wine heated with sugar, honey and spices.

The name of mulled wine that comes from the expression mulled wine and turn up around 1609 in Sweden.

In the middle of the 1800s it begins to emerge as mulled wine recipes in cookbooks and by the end of the century begins premixed mulled emerge from wine merchants.

 

Today the Swedish people drink about five million litres of mulled wine every year and ofcourse mostly around Christmas celebrations between the first Sunday of Advent and Christmas holidays.

 

One of our classics are Blossa. In 2010, sold 3.3 million bottles Blossa mulled over the monopoly which represents 77% of total sales.

This year’s flavor has focused on merging two of the Swedes’ most popular drink mulled wine and coffee.

 

Do you want to make your own mulled wine, it is not too hard, remember to choose a simpler wine as a base.

A liter, about 8 glasses

Ingredients:

1 liter of red wine

3 cinnamon sticks

10 whole cloves

1 teaspoon whole cardamom seeds

2 tablespoons granulated sugar

 

To do this:

Pour the wine into a saucepan, add cinnamon sticks, cloves, cardamom seeds and sugar.

For best results, heat it to about 75 ° C. Use a thermometer.

Let sit for about 15-30 minutes. Strain and serve mulled wine at about 70 degrees along with almonds and raisins.

Good luck!