Another FINE experiment...

Sparkling Mulled Wine?

Left to Right: Cava, Mix of Cava and cooled Mulled Wine, and lastly plain cooled Mulled Wine

After a day of work aka holiday retail insanity places like Wine Merchant  http://www.fpwm.com/index.html & Il Cane Rosso http://canerossosf.com/ are life savers for us Ferry Building survivors. The most recent evening we snagged a bottle of Cava (Spanish bubbly) as Wine Merchant was having 'last call' and we brought it over to Il Cane Rosso. I usually am happy to stick like glue to my bubbles but Il Cane lured me in with their Mulled Wine, next thing I know I have a glass of bubbles and a mug of Mulled Wine staring at me. For those of you who know me you know naturally what comes next - I LOVE to mix everything and recreate new things. So yes, Sparking Mulled Wine! The outcome wasn't what I hoped for (but that's not the point, the point is try everything, you never know what will turn out amazing.) & I did however figure out how it would work out for next time, the Mulled Wine needs to be reduced to a Mulled Wine syrup and then cooled and added to your bubbly. Just the cooled Mulled Wine itself is not flavorful enough to make the correlation optimum. So there you have it, my excitement for one evening...or at least the part I'll write about. : ) 

Kali Orexi, SFine