What wine to use for mulled wine

BurgundyRose

Lately I'm getting into mulled wine. I use the mulled wine sachets from one of the spices brands from the supermarket. The wine I used so far was a cabernet savignon wine. Its was OK. I found it very sharp and bitter. It wasn't my favourite. I don't if if that was to do with the dark brown sugar I used of if it was the wine. I think I used a different wine last year but I can't remember if it was a merlot or a shiraz. I would love to achieve a smooth and soft mulled wine. Any ideas for recipes and what wine to go for?
Thanks

odyssey06

Cheap shiraz from Tesco, LIDL, ALDI would be the goto cooking wine in our household for dishes like Beef bourguignon.
It is usually cheaper than merlot and more robust, whereas cheap merlot can be a bit thin.
Maybe cabernet sauvignon didn't work cos it would be higher in drying tannins.

LIDL and ALDI usually sell a mulled wine (Gluhwein) this time of year, might be worth trying for a relative comparison.

An old boards thread here on the subject might have some recipe pointers:
https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=52500648

BurgundyRose

odyssey06 wrote: »

Cheap shiraz from Tesco, LIDL, ALDI would be the goto cooking wine in our household for dishes like Beef bourguignon.
It is usually cheaper than merlot and more robust, whereas cheap merlot can be a bit thin.
Maybe cabernet sauvignon didn't work cos it would be higher in drying tannins.

LIDL and ALDI usually sell a mulled wine (Gluhwein) this time of year, might be worth trying for a relative comparison.

An old boards thread here on the subject might have some recipe pointers:

Thank you for the reply. Thanks for the wine suggestions and the link. I will have a look in my local aldi at the weekend for the mulled wine.

BeerNut

BurgundyRose wrote: »

I found it very sharp and bitter.

Every year I'm surprised by how much sugar is needed. I'm not sure the wine matters to the flavour much, but when it's too sharp and bitter, just pile in the sugar until it's not.

Adyx

We make some every year in work and we use a cheap shiraz (Hardy's I think) as odyssey06 suggested and it comes out lovely.

Northpole

Any wine - as lomg as it is red.