Red wine is warmed with orange juice, sugar and small amounts of ground cinnamon and cloves. The ground spices stay in the serving and are fully counted; gentle heat avoids a hard boil.
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Ready in10 minMakes1 servingCalories · estimated per serving173*Total sugar · estimated per serving12g
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Step by step
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3 minutes measuring and about 7 minutes gentle warming; do not boil.
01
Combine the wine, orange juice, sugar, cinnamon and cloves in a small saucepan.
02
Warm over low heat for about 5–7 minutes, stirring until sugar dissolves and the liquid is steaming. Keep it below a simmer and do not boil.
03
Pour the entire unstrained batch into a heatproof glass or mug and serve promptly. Stir if ground spices settle.
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Easy swaps
Use 8 g honey instead of sugar for a different sweetness; count its own source nutrients rather than treating the quantities as equivalent.
Use a different dry red wine only with its actual alcohol level and nutrition source; the displayed estimate uses a representative USDA red-table-wine composition rather than a specific bottle.
Mixpert tips
Use a small pan and low heat to avoid fast reduction of a single serving.
Measure cloves carefully: a tiny amount is sufficient in this small batch.
No dependable alcohol removal is established by this method. Some evaporation can occur, but the retained amount has not been measured; the nutrition basis must disclose its alcohol-retention assumption.
Why use ground spices instead of whole sticks?+
The measured ground cinnamon and cloves stay in the serving, so the ingredient calculation counts what is consumed. Whole spices can be used for a different preparation, but their extraction cannot be assigned a fabricated percentage.
What wine should I use?+
Choose a red table wine you enjoy drinking, preferably dry rather than dessert-sweet. The calculation uses a generic USDA red-table-wine record; an individual bottle can differ in alcohol and residual sugar.
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