For my school’s long weekend, my friends and I headed with my family to the cold and windy VT mountains, the perfect place to try some winter’s foods. To complete a fondue dinner, my mom pulled out a Trader Joe’s mix of Glögg, a Nordic drink of mulled wine. The mix included all but the alcohol: mixed juices (apple, orange, and others) spiced with cinnamon, cardamom, raisons, almonds, ginger, and cloves. Heated over a stove, you slowly add red wine to the mix to create the original thing, a drink fit to keep you both toasty and happy in harsher winter weather.
The drink was first made in Sweden as a popular “health-bringing” drink, but also as a way to mask the taste of bad of spoiled wine with all its spices. The term glödgat (“to heat up” in Swedish) was first coined in 1609 and changed to Glögg over time. It became a Christmas drink in the 1890’s and is now drunk globally during the Christmas holidays and in alpine settings in order to keep warm and merry.
The drink itself tastes very pungent, heavy and spiced. The various spices and fruit juices mix to give a strong flavor enhanced by the flavor and alcohol of the red wine. It also felt welcomingly warming and thawing after a long day of skiing and being in the cold. It's a delicious drink for the winter, but would probably be heavy any other time of the year.
Sources:
http://www.swedishop.eu/page_8,us,8,8.cfm
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