It's a Wine-derful Life

Only one more door to open on the advent calendar and still a lot to do. Busy socialising, wrapping, making and baking, it's time to take a break, crack open the Quality Streets and enjoy a glass of mulled wine.

I used to work with a lady who insisted on calling it muled wine. Clearly she'd drunk plenty and was confusing Mary's mode of transport or Joseph's choice of footwear!

You can make your own mulled wine - there are plenty of recipes to choose from - adding everything from oranges to cinnamon sticks, brandy to sloe gin, nutmeg to bay leaves. Alternatively you can buy a sachet of mulled wine mix to add to red wine or buy a bottle of ready made mulled wine which you can pimp yourself.

So raise a glass and a Happy Christmas, Happy Holidays, Feliz Navidad, Joyeux Noel. It is, after all, 

The most wine-derful time of the year!

PS received the best Christmas gift this week - over 20,000 reads since I began writing this blog - many thanks for reading.