Posted by Chris on October 28, 2008
Just add spices and make mulled wine out of it. According to Frankie Lane, this is the thing to do and we agree 100%.
her ingredients include
- bad merlot
- cinzano
- amaretto
- sugar
- heat
hmmm.
Thanks, Frankie.
Posted by Chris on October 8, 2008
This is just fun - big piles of burning wood and mulled wine. Why weren’t we invited? We’ll even bring the mulled wine!
Kids with sparklers, mulled wine.
Creek banks, mulled wine.
Posted by Chris on October 1, 2008
I just saw this and, yeah, really. Lime juice mulled wine.
The folks in the Italian Made Social Motoring Club in Australia (not sure what part) made a lunch stop and were served some mulled wine “consisting of Lime juice, brandy and cloves.”
It’s the lime juice I just don’t get.
I like limes but never once considered adding the them to wine in any form.
Posted by Chris on September 13, 2008
We love the idea from Canadian Bridal to serve mulled wine at a winter wedding. It only makes sense. This is perfect for us because our mulled wine mix is so easy to make fast in large quantities. That kind of feels like a shameless plug, but it’s a true one.
“Your winter wedding menu can be hearty and warming, just like your wedding décor. Serve spiced wine…[and maybe other stuff, too]”
Posted by Chris on September 7, 2008
More research is needed to confirm the headline but I think it can be done. Anyone want to chime in?
Kate of “What Katy Did…” tells of her, um, research into how mulled wine might prevent or, at least, not cause hangovers. I have done research that ended with quite the opposite result but I am still exceptionally interested in what she has to say about the subject. Ok, maybe her discover should be classified as something more like accidental than researched.
Either way, it’s a good account…
I had a very weird experience on Sunday morning: I awoke without a hangover… Having supped the previous night on a concoction of champagne, white wine, red wine, mulled wine and some suspicious clear liquid that appeared in a cup by my chair sometime shortly after 2am I was prepared for the worst.
read on.
Posted by Chris on September 2, 2008
I thought this was cool. So, it’s not really a poem about mulled wine but it does mention mulled wine.
Anyway, thanks, Tom, for your poem with mulled wine. We like it.
A Sudden Urge to Dance
You eyes look across, past the comfortable circle
of laughing friends, all happily talking at once,
their plates half empty, their wine glasses half full,
their talk full of art and music and hope and habit.
You look past the table, past the warm oak paneling
through the broad glass windows
and into the garden
to the man waltzing in the rain.
What madness makes a man dance so
when the winds of November
whip cold drops of near snow
like icy daggers?
What inner fire warms his eyes,
defies the coming winter
and even in the late autumn mist
shouts joy and passion?
And you wonder,
why is it, that here in the warmth of the teahouse,
safe in the womb of your dinner conversations
and warm mulled wine
you have an urge to step into the falling darkness
and dance in the flowerless garden?
Tom is a creative guy who shares what pours from his head on his blog. Take a look.
Posted by Chris on August 29, 2008
dude, we totally know this feeling. Some people just do not believe that warm wine is awesome! I mean, ugh!
The A in AJ went for a hike with friends and broke out the mulled wine to some disbelievers afterwards. It seems they were converted.
Nice job A. I’m not Canadian, “A” is a name… nevermind.
Other things that are awesome, according to A’s post:
- the decision to rent a car instead of take the bus
- Kate, the overweight woman’s-studies roommate
- A’s hiking boots
- TradeMe.co.nz, the NZ version of ebay
- the manager of a hostel in Christchurch who was offered a job
- The idea that…”we’re very different, but both so willing to listen, that it’s more of an expanding experience and deep conversation that the arguments that I’m used to having.”
And I really appreciate this quote: “We cannot think our way into new action, we must act our way into new thinking.”
Oh, and mulled wine is awesome.
Thanks, A
Posted by Chris on August 14, 2008
This one is near and dear to me since I am a kayaker. It gets a big cool gluhwein (mulled wine) moment gold star.
This group of five kayakers went paddling in Trial Bay on the SE coast of Tasmania, Australia. I want an invitation next time they go.
They were pretty laid back about the trip (my favorite way to paddle) and drank mulled wine in the evenings - another one of my favorite things.
Ok guys, next time you go, invite ME! I will bring all the mulled wine you want!
Posted by Chris on July 8, 2008
Greetings Everyone!
Please view the Gluhwein.Net MySpace page and add us as your MySpace friend.
The season is coming for mulled wine and you will see us in Classic Wines and a few other places for sure. Look for Gluhwein.Net all over the place this year, though.
Gluhwein.Net MySpace Page
Posted by Chris on June 25, 2008
Rebecca Laffar-Smith of Writer’s Round-About posed a thoughtful question:
If you could live for a month in one world or time period from a novel you’ve read, which would you choose, and why?
I love her answer and agree whole-heartedly.
I would LOVE to experience a medieval world. Any story that goes back to a time when people peed in chamber pots, clattered swords against battered sheilds, paid their levy in grain or pigs to the land baron, and served mulled wine with broth and bread at a nearby tavern, captivates me. These are also the stories I love to write; an era that holds my heart.
What guy doesn’t like to think of himself in a musty tavern with his shield and breast plate laid by the hearth and his sword dangling at his side, slamming a stein of mulled wine on the table as he eyes the maidens and laughs with his comrades, glad to be resting after surviving another day of battle for the King?
Sure, it’s a bit dreamy but it still makes me thirsty.