Grape Juice Mulled Wine: A Family-Friendly Warm Drink

A healthy hot drink that can be served to everyone! A glass of aromatic non-alcoholic mulled wine is what you need on a winter evening. This drink warms you up well in cold weather. It is suitable for children too, because the recipe is without wine, based on grape juice or syrup.
cook time: 30 min
Zoe Kendrick
Grape Juice Mulled Wine: A Family-Friendly Warm Drink

Nutrition Facts (per serving)

92
Calories
23g
Carbs
1g
Protein

Ingredients (4 portions)

Basic:

Apples (small) 0.5 pc
Oranges 0.5 pc
Honey (optional) 30 g
Lemons 0.5 pc
Syrup (cherry) 120 ml
Carnation (buds) 4 pc
Lime 0.5 pc
Star anise (stars) 2 pc
cinnamon stick 2 pc
Grape juice (from red grapes) 600 ml

Recipe instructions

Step 1

Step 1
How to make non-alcoholic mulled wine with juice? Prepare the necessary ingredients. For the base, you can use grape juice and cherry syrup, or vice versa — cherry juice and grape syrup. It is not necessary to add honey to mulled wine, especially if the juice and syrup are already sweet. You can add more or less spices to suit your taste. If you take grape juice, you can use any syrup, not just cherry. And vice versa.

Step 2

Step 2
Wash all fruits thoroughly. Without peeling, cut the apple, orange, lime and lemon halves into slices.

Step 3

Step 3
Place the prepared fruits in a saucepan, add cinnamon sticks, star anise and clove buds. You can add more spices whose taste you like best. For example, more cinnamon sticks or star anise. Itʼs the same with fruits. If you donʼt like the bitterness of lime, you can omit it altogether. Here everything can be adjusted to your liking.

Step 4

Step 4
Pour grape juice and cherry syrup into the fruit.

Step 5

Step 5
Place the saucepan over low heat, bring the contents of the saucepan to a boil and cook the mulled wine at low simmer for 1-2 minutes.

Step 6

Step 6
Taste the mulled wine and add honey if necessary.

Step 7

Step 7
You can immediately pour the finished mulled wine with fruit into a jug or into glasses. I first removed all the fruits and spices and strained the drink through a sieve.

Step 8

Step 8
Pour the hot drink into special mulled wine glasses with handles. To make your glasses look elegant while the mulled wine is brewing, you can dip their rims into syrup and then into a bowl of sugar.

Step 9

Step 9
If desired, add fruit from the saucepan to the glasses and serve the mulled wine to the table. Bon appetit!

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