Tea Infused Wine
Enhance both the tea leaves and the fermented grapes with tea infused wine. Experiment with your favourite red or white wine and loose leaf tea!
Ingredients
- 1 750 ml bottle of wine
- 6-8 teaspoons of loose leaf tea
Instructions
- Quickly rinse the tea leaves in a strainer with hot water. This will help the tea leaves open and get the infusion process started. Add the rinsed tea leaves to a glass pitcher.
- Pour the full bottle of wine into the glass pitcher, over the rinsed tea leaves. Stir lightly and cover with lid.
- If you are using a white wine, set the pitcher in the fridge to cold brew overnight (8-12 hours, depending on strength desired). If you are using a red wine it does not need to be chilled, therefore steep it overnight at room temperature.
- The next day, strain the tea leaves from the now tea infused wine by pouring it through a strainer into another serving pitcher or its original wine bottle.
- Pour yourself a glass. Take note of any main changes from the wine due to the tea (ie. colour, aroma, taste, etc.) Cheers!
Notes
One of my favourite tea infused wine experiements is with Pinto Grigio and Tie Guan Yin oolong tea.
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