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Recipe: Spiced Red Wine with Brandy and Citrus

Spiced Red Wine with Brandy and also Citrus

INGREDIENTS:

1 orange, cut
1/2 lemon, sliced up
1 vanilla bean
Peel from 1 orange – orange part only
6 entire cloves
1 750-ml bottle completely dry red wine, Merlot
1/2 cup framboise eau de vie or brandy
6 tbsp sugar

PREPARATION:

Integrate sliced orange as well as lemon, vanilla bean, orange peel and also cloves in big glass jar. Put wine over. Cover and also place in awesome dark area for 2 weeks.
Stress wine via a number of layers of cheesecloth right into 4-cup determining cup. Throw out solids in cheesecloth. Add framboise and sugar to wine; mix till sugar dissolves. Pour combination right into wine container or attractive bottle. Cork bottle as well as location in great dark area for at the very least 1 week. (Can be made 6 weeks in advance. Store in amazing dark area.) Offer in small wineglasses.