Categories: Beverages, German, Alcohol 
      Yield: 4 servings 
  
     60 g  Sugar 
    1/2    Cinnamon stick 
      4    Cloves 
           Peel of 1/2 lemon 
    1/8 l  Water 
      1 l  Red wine 
           Juice of 1/2 - 1 lemon 
  
  Put cinnamon, cloves and lemon peel in a paper tea filter; tie it shut with 
  a piece of white yarn. Together with the water and the sugar, bring it to a 
  boil in a pot, let sit for 20 minutes. Take out the tea filter, add the red 
  wine and heat. The art is to heat the wine up as close to its boiling 
  temperature without ever getting it to boil (the most important thing about 
  making gluehwein is that the wine must NEVER boil). Finally, add lemon 
  juice to taste. 
   
  Possible variations: ~ leave away the lemon juice or use orange juice 
  instead ~ leave away the lemon peel ~ instead of boiling the tea filter, 
  put it directly into the wine, heat, 
    and let soak for 30 - 45 minutes (you don't need the water this way); if 
    you chop up the ingredients before putting them in the filter, you get a 
    more intensive flavor ~ add a few drops of vanilla ~ add a little 
  cardamom and/or ginger ~ vary the quantities of cinnamon, cloves and sugar 
  ~ to get the possibly most famous type of gluehwein, the Nuernberger 
    Christkindlesmarkt-Gluehwein, use blueberry wine instead of red wine 
   
  Typed for you by Volkhart Baumgaertner