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Best Hot Spiced Wine
Hot Spiced Wine Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 bottles light-bodied red wine, such as pinot noir, gamay, or cabernet franc
- 1 1/4 cups sugar
- Strips of zest from 1 orange
- Strips of zest from 1 lemon
- 3 black peppercorns, crushed
- 2 cardamom pods, crushed
- One 3-inch cinnamon stick, crushed
- 1 clove, crushed
- 1 star anise
- 1/2 cup kirsch (optional)
Directions
1. To make the hot spiced wine, place the red wine, sugar, and orange and lemon zests into a large saucepan. Tuck the crushed spices into a tea ball or a small square of cheese cloth and add it to the saucepan.
2. Bring the wine to a very gentle simmer over moderate heat, stirring until the sugar dissolves. Remove the pan from the heat, remove the tea ball from the pan, and stir the kirsch into the spiced wine, if using. Ladle the spiced wine into heatproof glasses and serve at once
