Link to this live broadcast: http://wearecentralpa.com/centralpatvhome

Sarah Swistak from WTAJ’s Central PA Live television show was joined once again by winery manager, Jinx Proch, to talk about deals for holiday wines this season. Jinx brought a variety of wines to the set, including ’09 Merlot, Rock Hill Red and Spiced Apple. They also discussed the Winery’s “Mulled Wine & Gingerbread” Open House on December 17 & 18, which featured all of the wines that were brought for this segment.

What follows is the commentary of Jinx Proch, manager of Mt. Nittany Winery.

“Today, we are going to be tasting mulled wines. Mulled wines are heated wines – typically they have some spices added to them, typically some sugar as well. They are great served warm for a holiday gathering, good with dessert or after dessert by themselves. We have spice packets that we sell that you can add to the wine – we have a couple wines here that we’ve done that with. We also sell our Spiced Apple wine that is already spiced in the bottle so that you don’t have to do anything other than heat it. I should mention that when you heat these wines, you don’t want to boil them. If you boil them, that will evaporate the alchohol. You can heat them several different ways, either in a microwave or a crock pot, or on the stove. The alchohol will boil off if the temperature is above about 180 degrees farenheit, so you’ll want to make sure that your heating temperature is below this.

Up first, we have our Merlot and this has been spiced.The wines we’re trying will be getting increasingly sweeter. The heat is going to allow the aromas to really roll off of this. You’ll need an insulator or something similar to a coffee cup to taste out of. Enjoy these spices that are coming off of these as you taste. This bottle of Melot is spiced with two or three of our spice packets and then if you want to add sugar, you can. This did not have more sugar added to it. You should get the taste of the cinnamon and cloves and I get some orange out of this.

Next we have our Rock Hill Red. This is named after the Rock Hill School in Linden Hall which was recently restored – just down the hill from the winery. This is also spiced with our spice packets which cost 75 cents. This is sweeter and has been flavored with 2 spice packets plus about one tablespoon of sugar per bottle. I tell people to sweeten to taste. Throw in a tablespoon of sugar, and if you want it sweeter, add more.

The last one is the sweetest of all – the Spiced Apple. This is a wine that we spice in the bottle, so there are cloves and cinnamon already built into this and a great apple flavor and taste. So this will be great with apple pie, ice cream, or by itself. Also good with gingerbread or any other cookies.”

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