Recipe: Howl At The Moon Cocktail

From: Duplin Winery

Ingredients:
  • 4 tablespoons Duplin Mulling Spice mix
  • 2 ounces hot water
  • 2 drops bitters such as Angostura bitters or use lemon juice
  • 3 ounces Duplin Moonlight Bliss white wine
  • Hard cider such as Redd's or Angry Orchard
  • Fresh rosemary sprig
  • 4 to 6 ice cubes
Directions:
  1. Make mulling spice syrup: Place Duplin Mulling Spice mix in a small jar. Add the warm water to the Duplin Mulling Spice mix in the jar. Stir vigorously until mulling spice mix is dissolved.
  2. Make cocktail: Measure out 1 ounce or one small shot glass full of the mulling spice syrup and add it to a collins or highball glass (12- to 14-ounce tall glass).
  3. Add bitters or lemon juice to the glass.
  4. Add Duplin Moonlight Bliss white wine to the glass and stir well.
  5. Drop 4 to 6 ice cubes in the glass, leaving a 2-inch space at the top of the glass.
  6. Fill glass the rest of the way with hard cider.
  7. Gently stir cocktail.
  8. Strip the lower leaves off a the rosemary sprig. 
  9. Ganish the cocktail by sticking the rosemary spring down into the side of the glass just far enough so that about 1 inch of the leaves stand above the drink.
  10. Makes 1 serving.
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