{"id":5542,"date":"2011-12-15T07:51:24","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T12:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=5542"},"modified":"2011-12-15T07:51:24","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T12:51:24","slug":"christmas-countdown-10-days-mulled-wine-for-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/15\/christmas-countdown-10-days-mulled-wine-for-the-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Countdown: 10 Days: Mulled Wine for the Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas and holiday time is a great time of the year to fill your home with the scents of mulled wine. As long as you have a few simple items in your kitchen, you can easily make a mulled wine. Good ingredients to have on hand for making mulled wine include: red wine, sugar, spices or mulled spice mix, and oranges.<\/p>\n<p>Several recipes for mulled wine are in the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/recipes\/food.php\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Recipe Section<\/span><\/a><\/span> of the Wine Trail Traveler website. There are also a couple of recipes that do not use a red wine. One recipe from Black Star Farms uses a <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/recipes\/beverages16.php\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">hard apple cider<\/span><\/a><\/span>. This is a particularly nice mulled wine for those who do not drink red wines.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite recipe is one that Kevin has made at home for us and I\u2019m hoping he will make it again this year \u2013 <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/recipes\/beverages17.php\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Mulled Wine Recipe<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy making a mulled wine that will fill the house with holiday scents and tastes delightful.\u00a0For those who avoid the kitchen, check with the wineries in your backyard to see if they have bottled mulled wine or spice wine available.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers! Kathy<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"Christmas Countdown: 10 Days: Mulled Wine for the Holidays\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=5542\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas and holiday time is a great time of the year to fill your home with the scents of mulled wine. As long as you have a few simple items in your kitchen, you can easily make a mulled wine. Good ingredients to have on hand for making mulled wine include: red wine, sugar, spices [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[12,449,911,441,583,69,98],"class_list":["post-5542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine-and-food","tag-black-star-farms","tag-christmas","tag-holiday","tag-mulled-wine","tag-recipe","tag-recipes","tag-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5542"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5546,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5542\/revisions\/5546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}