Wine can be heated, especially in winter, and a sip of heated wine warms up the whole body.

Scandinavians, for example, enjoy a glass of steaming wine on a freezing cold day with the family gathered around a roaring fire, warming them from head to toe.

How to heat wine:

When wine is heated, it loses a lot of its aroma and needs to be spiced. Generally speaking, for a 750ml bottle of wine, you will need 1 stick of cinnamon (imported cinnamon is small and has a mild flavor, so you can use 2 sticks), 2 star anise

pcs, 8 cloves, ginger, peel, vanilla pods and so on in moderation.

(1) Put these ingredients into a pot and heat slowly over medium heat until boiling.

(2) Continue cooking on low heat for

15 minutes.

(3) Strain the spice residue and pour the heated wine into a glass.

(4) Depending on your personal preference, the heated wine can be:

Add a few slices of lemon or lime to add freshness, acidity, and zest to the fresh fruit; add a spoonful of honey to balance out the lemon's acidity and add complexity, especially for those who don't like acidity or are sweet-toothed; and add brandy to make up for the alcohol that has evaporated during the heating process, as needed.

Note: Note: Do not use a large fire, the fire will be too large to make the wine boil quickly, which alcohol, flavor substances, acidic substances volatile, taste greatly reduced.

Suitable wines for heating

Many wine enthusiasts understand that high temperature is the natural enemy of wine, mainly because high temperature will destroy the aroma and fresh taste in the wine, so when heating the wine, please choose the cheap wine.

You can also heat the wine you don't like first, such as

wine bought home, only to find that it's not good or don't like it;

wine because of the improper way of storing the taste deterioration,

of course, for the oxidation of the wine into vinegar or mildew and other serious deterioration of the wine, we still don't want to drink it.