There are also a lot of mulled wine recipes using white wine, but I don’t think Nordic Gløgg works with that. Any cheap, dry red wine will work really well in this recipe. I would definitely not splurge on an expensive bottle of wine. They are all warm red wine with mulling spices. If you like one, you will definitely like the other. In Norway it’s a very popular drink and it’s often consumed non-alcoholic with crushed nuts and raisins.Īs a bottomline I would say mulled wine, glühwein and gløgg are triplets. We dilute the red wine with apple juice (or other juices), and often blackcurrant cordial. Nordic or Scandinavian Mulled Wine is warm red wine with mulling spices, but our gløgg is sweeter as we make more of a warm sangria out of it. Gløgg, in Norway and Denmark, glögg in Sweden and glögi in Finland and Estonia. Glühwein is popular in German-speaking countries. There really doesn’t seem to be a lot of differences between mulled wine and glühwein, other than the name and where it would be consumed. Glühwein is also warm wine with a lot of mulling spices, oranges and sometimes vanilla pods. Glühwein, means glowing wine, because of the heated up wine. It is like the Winter sister of a sangria, although not diluted with juices. Mulled wine isn’t as sweet as gløgg but they are still pretty similar. Mulled Wine is usually warm red wine with a lot of mulling spices like cinnamon, cloves and ginger. The recipe you’ll see here will be a classic Scandinavian Gløgg, or glögg, glogg or any variety of that word. Mulling spices are warming spices like cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, star anise, allspice and ginger. Mulled Wine is called exactly that because it is a drink consisting of wine and mulling spices. Mulled Wine is a beloved warming drink that’s popular in a lot of different cultures and countries, especially in Europe. What is Mulled Wine? Is it the same as Glühwein and Gløgg? It is almost like a mulled cider and so if you want to switch things up, I can also recommend classic apple cider but also this grapefruit and calendula tea mulled cider! Both are so, so good and the grapefruit cider is done in just 15 minutes! They are fine, but it will be even more festive to make your own. They serve it at every Christmas market and the stores fill up with the ready-made bottles. Mulled wine is huge in Norway and Sweden during the Christmas Holidays. It is time for family, for comforting cookies and eggnog, and it’s time for mulled wine. The time of the year when drinks get spiked with spices, time (should) slows down to just embrace the simple pleasure of being together. Enjoy on a cold Christmas evening when the snow is falling outside.Ĭhristmas. Make this mulled wine recipe with red wine, or without for a delicious non-alcoholic drink. Scandinavian mulled wine, or gløgg, filled with warming spices such as allspice, cloves, ginger and of course cinnamon.