Recipes – Dante Robere Vineyards

Ingredients

• 1/3 cup sugar
• 2 tablespoons orange zest (use a vegetable peeler to create the strips of zest, being careful to make them thin and avoiding the bitter white pith)
• 4 tablespoons orange juice (juice of 1 orange)
• 1 tablespoon lemon zest (​ zest of 1 lemon; same method as for the orange)
• 2 cinnamon sticks
• 4 whole cloves
• 1 pinch nutmeg (freshly grated)
• 1 bottle of full-bodied red wine (Zin is our pick)
• 1/4-inch ginger (fresh, peeled and bruised with the back of a chef’s knife)
• 1 whole star anise
• 1/2 vanilla pod
• 10 whole allspice berries
• 5 whole black peppercorns
• 1-2 bay leaves