1For four: warm a bottle of red wine with ½ cup of sugar, a cinnamon stick and two lemon slices studded with four cloves each.
2Stir until it just comes to a boil, then take it off the heat.
3Remove the spices and lemon and ladle into warm glasses.
Garnish: A cinnamon stick and a lemon wedge.
Saveur’s recipe makes four; the numbers here are for one glass. Bringing the wine to a boil cooks off some alcohol, so the real strength is a little lower.
The ratio
4½ : 1
In parts, a Mulled Wine is 4½ red wine and 1 sugar. Change one part and you have a cousin; the closest are below.