German Glow Wine

I should have posted this before Christmas, but I hope someone saves this and makes it next year.
It's a popular drink for Christkindlmarkets across Germany, German speaking countries, and parts of the US with a large German population

ingredients

1 bottle of cabernet sauvignon (the brand doesn't matter)
2 or3 oranges (depending on how much flavor you want
a bag of cloves
2 or 3 cinnamon sticks
honey

Pour the bottle of wine into a regular pot, place on low heat
Cut the oranges into halfs and stuff 5 cloves into each orange
Place the oranges and cinnamon sticks into the wine and let heat up for 45-60 minutes
sweeten with honey
Enjoy a tasty German Christmas treat while it's still hot!

Heating up the oranges and cinnamon like that....probably makes for a wonderful smelling house.

I enjoy the "fuss" of cooking from scratch, especially when I have someone to cook for

The house smells AWESOME after you boil it all together. It smells like, well, Christmas haha

EW!!! GROSS!!!

spoken like a true 16 year old....besides you SHOULD think wine related beverages are gross. you're too young yet to think otherwise.

not really...

nice avatar btw, is it wine related too?

lol...yes 16 really is too young for that particular beverage.... where do you think we are? france?

and no....that avatar is alllll me alllll the time without the assistance of any personality altering liquids. lol

oh dear... i'm so sorry...


and what do you mean: 'where do you think WE are?'

WE are in north america....we haz RULEZ about these sort of things

ooooh so your flag isn't correct then? alright....drink to your heart's content

that sounds lovely, I'll have to try it.

Yes and no, I'm still an american citizen.

Everything in moderation sister.

I've never heard of German Glow Wine and that's a bit strange since my ancestors were of German/Polish origin (Prussian to be exact).

That's because in english it isn't called 'glow wine 'at all, as far as I know it. 'Glow wine' is the literal translation of the german 'glühwein.' The proper engelsh term is 'mulled wine.'

Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulled_wine

My German friend calls it glow wine because I guess he just calls it what it's called in Germany but in English. Plus, mulled wine sounds gross haha

Sounds gross... tastes gross...

But yeah, that would make sense, here they call it 'bisschopswijn' (literally translated 'bishops'wine'), because people like to drink it around the feast of Saint Nicolas (december 5th).

I just gotta know... Does it really glow? If so .. I'm for sure making it