Make sure you serve the wine in heat-proof glasses. If you aren’t serving it immediately, you can keep it warm in a slow cooker or a soup kettle. Serves 6

Ingredients

• 1 bottle of vegan red wine
• 60g (2 oz) demerera sugar
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 6 whole cloves
• 1 orange
• 1 bay leaf
• 60ml (2 fl.oz.) sloe gin

Method

1. Pour the wine into a saucepan. Cut the orange in half and add it. Add the cinnamon stick, nutmeg and bay leaf.
2. Heat gently, stirring, until the wine is warmed through and the sugar has dissolved.
3. Taste and add more sugar if desired.
4. Remove from the heat and strain out the cloves, bay leaf and orange halves.
5. Stir in the sloe gin, if using.