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What wine do you use for mulled wine?
For mulled wine - whether red or white - fruit-driven grape varieties are suitable that can also hold their own in the interplay with spices (cinnamon, cloves, star anise) and citrus extracts with sufficient aroma strength and body. For red mulled wine, for example, Dornfelder, Regent, Zweigelt, Sankt Laurent, Merlot, Syrah or Tempranillo are suitable, for white mulled wine Rieslingpinot Gris, Kerner or Grüner Veltliner.
Two basic rules apply:
- The better the base wine, the better the mulled wine. It doesn't have to be a top-quality wine costing over 20 euros a bottle, but it should offer more quality than an industrial product for 3 euros from the supermarket.
- The more residual sugar the base wine already has, the less the mulled wine needs to be sweetened. Seasoning is essential.
Incidentally, wineries increasingly offer mulled wine made from their own grapes or special mulled wine base wines in winter.