Heat the mulled wine properly

Mulled wine must not be boiled, only heated.

You can eat, for example, orange cookies with mulled wine. Roni Lehti

When heating mulled wine, remember a few things.

Heat the mulled wine gently in a steel pot. Forget the kettle, and even in the microwave you should only heat mulled wine if you’re making one cup of it.

The mulled wine is ready when it steams. The mulled wine should not be allowed to boil. The deliciously spicy taste of mulled wine may be affected by excessive heating. The alcohol also evaporates if the mulled wine boils briskly for a quarter of an hour.

When heating mulled wine, do not let it boil. RIITTA HEISKANEN

Vary the mulled wine stoppers according to the mulled wine. Let your imagination fly, you can put more than raisins and almonds in a glögi mug.

A cinnamon stick slipped into a mulled glass or a slice of orange is nice for serving pale mulled wine. Lingonberry or cherry mulled wine is decorated with a vanilla bean or star anise. You can try a slice of lime for exotic-tasting vintage mulled wine, and cranberries or rosemary sprigs look like soms in red mulled wine.

Glög can also be served cold or mixed with sparkling wine.

Pomegranate seeds or the candied edge of the glass create that final touch to mulled wine.

Here are Iltalehti’s jury’s favorites of the 2021 novelty glöggs. IL-TV

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