![]() We also love the play of spices and citrus, so we use fresh orange peel to give a wonderful citrus aroma. We love warm spices, so we load ours up with ginger, cinnamon, cardamom, and cloves. Recipes for glögg vary greatly from family to family. Brandy is a commonly found alternative, and we love the way the brandy flavor works with the spices.īut, if you are an aquavit fan, go ahead and add it in! Many traditional Swedish recipes will call for aquavit, a vodka that has been flavored with caraway or dill seeds. His drink was later named “glödgag vin,” meaning “glowing-hot wine,” a name which was then shortened to glögg” in the later 1800’s. The legend goes that King Gustav I Vasa of Sweden loved a warm drink made from German wine, sugar and spices. ![]() Served warm, it is incredibly popular during the Christmas season, but makes for a great, warming drink whenever the temperatures turn chilly. While German mulled wine typically just heads for the spices and citrus flavor, Sweedish Glögg is a combination of red wine, port, and brandy steeped with aromatic spices. Glögg (pronounced gloog) is an infused wine whose name means “glow.” It’s something everyone enjoys and takes things just a notch fancier than your everyday wine. We love sharing mulled wine at special occasions when the weather turns cooler.
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