Mulled Wine - how do you make yours?

[Champagne]

My recipe is as follows:-

Put 1 bottle of red wine in a saucepan. Fill empty wine bottle with 3/4 of water and 1/4 of orange or cranberry juice, add to pan. Add 1oz brandy or cognac if available. Add juice of 1 lemon. Add 2 cinnamon sticks and boquet garni (of allspice, 4 cloves and grated nutmeg), one sliced orange and 1 sliced apple. Heat slowly until mixture is hot and then add 2 tsp of brown sugar (add more to taste). Stir until dissolved and allow to simmer gently for a further 10 minutes. Serve.

[ugly_bob]

similar, but higher booze - no booze ratio
about 1/4 water, 1/4 OJ to 1 wine and a big slug of brandy

[rhona_j]

Ooh, they sound lovely, I'll try one of them this year.

I had my first attempt last year and well, the best i can say of it was the house smelled lovely!

[scafell]

Use a big pan, not aluminium. One bottle of red wine, (cheap will do.) Quarter bottle of rum, two cinnamon sticks, 4 cloves, grated nutmeg, inch of peeled ginger,pint of apple juice, lots of muscavado sugar, slices of lemon and orange. Heat up 10 minutes. Don't boil. Add lemonade to taste, last. the more lemonade, the futher it goeos. to top up as the night progresses, just add more wine and lemonade.

[scafell]

A pint of apple juice may be too much. Taste it as it goes in.

[scafell]

and non alcoholic: --water, honey, spices,a little apple juice. Boil the above. Add to fruit juice, apple juice and lemonade.