Mulled Wine Margaritas (Christmas Margarita Recipe) Recipe

By: Becky HardinPosted: 12/1/17Updated: 12/2/22

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MULLED WINE MARGARITAS are fun, festive, and unique. This favorite hot spiced wine recipe has complex flavors and it warms the soul. This Mulled Wine Recipe is the ultimate Christmas margarita!

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Christmas Margarita Recipe

This Mulled Wine recipe mixes the delicious flavor of hot spiced wine with tequila, creating the perfect Christmas Margarita for the holiday season.

Welcome to my new favorite holiday co*cktail: Mulled Wine Margaritas! Warm, spicy, unique, pretty, and fun; the list goes on and on! I have always loved mulled wine. It’s a staple at our house around the holiday season. The warm spiced beverage fills your home with delicious aromas and it really warms the soul and the body on the way down.

I’ve also always loved margaritas! I’m definitely a tequila and salt kind of girl. Being that it’s always great to combine things you love…what could be better than thisMulled Wine Recipe?These Hot Spiced Wine Margaritas are DIVINE in this winter weather. It’s the perfect Christmas Margarita! Snow is here and it’s time to make a pot of this fun twist on a classic!

Looking for the perfect Christmas Margarita? Find out how to make this this Mulled Wine Recipe with Tequila for the holidays!

Mulled Wine Margaritas

I’m SO darn excited about my new partnership with Exotico Tequila. It’s made by one of my favorite companies, Luxco, right here in Saint Louis. I’m so proud to be representing this award winning tequila as they’re made with 100% blue agave, has a great price point that can’t be beat for the quality, and look at those amazingly cool bottles.

I used their Reposado Tequila for today’s Mulled Wine Margaritas and it was absolutely perfect. With notes of vanilla, dry fruit, and spices, it really elevated traditional spiced wine. The flavor of the tequila only added to how much I love this classic mulled wine recipe!

What is Mulled Wine?

Mulled Wine is just a fancy way of saying Hot Spiced Wine. Generally, a mulled wine recipe includes a red wine mixed with spices (usually cinnamon, cloves, allspice, but other spices can be added in). The spiced wine is heated up and served warm.

Making Mulled Wine Margaritas

This is the perfect Christmas margarita for serving a crowd, whether you’re chatting around a fire, wrapping gifts, or sitting down to Christmas dinner. Can you imagine a more perfect or comforting beverage? I’m obsessed.

Making Mulled Wine Margaritas is pretty simple. Basically, it’s just a traditional mulled wine recipe with some tequila added in for an extra kick. To make these hot spiced wine margaritas, just follow a few simple steps:

Heat up the spiced in a skillet
Combine the wine, warm spices, tequila, and other ingredients into a pot
Let the wine simmer for an hour (covered)
Strain the mulled wine before serving
Add salt to the rim of your drink glasses for a little margarita flair

Tip: Try adding these dried orange slices into the mulled wine, or just as a garnish after pouring the drinks.

Now you’ve got the perfect Christmas Margarita to serve this holiday season. Warm, spicy, and extra delicious! See the recipe card at the bottom of this post for full instructions.

The Guide to making Margaritas

We have compiled all of our fave Margarita Recipes in a guide! Be sure to check it out for all our best tips, tricks, barware, variations, and more!

Hot Spiced Wine Margarita

As the weather gets colder (c’mon snow, I just bought Henry his first snow suit and I cannot wait to show you!), I hope these Hot Spiced Wine Margaritas make an appearance in your kitchen. They’ll make your house smell like the holidays, they’ll warm your hands and your belly, and they’ll be sure to impress anyone you make them for. That’s always a bonus this time of year. I wish it was acceptable to make stove top drinks year round, because I certainly would!!

Be sure to check out where you can buy Exotico Tequila near you. It’s my new favorite and I’m quite sure it will be yours as well. Expect to see more fun tequila recipes coming your way soon! Muah.

See the recipe card below for details on how to make Mulled Wine Christmas Margaritas. Enjoy!

If you enjoyed this Mulled Wine Recipe, try these other fun drink recipes:

Skinny Margarita Recipe
Broiled Grapefruit Margarita
Apple Pie Sangria
Homemade Eggnog Recipe
Best Spiced Rum Recipe

Recipe

Mulled Wine Margaritas

4.80 from 10 votes

Author: Becky Hardin | The Cookie Rookie

Prep: 5 minutes minutes

Cook: 1 hour hour

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Ingredients

▢ 4 whole cloves
▢ 8 whole black peppercorns
▢ 8 whole allspice
▢ 3 cinnamon sticks
▢ 1 bottle Malbec wine or your favorite spicy Spanish wine
▢ 1/4 cup agave syrup
▢ 1/2 cup dark brown sugar
▢ 2 cups spiced apple cider
▢ 1/4 cup orange juice
▢ 1/4 cup orange liqueur such as triplesec
▢ 1/4 cup Exotico Reposado Tequila
▢ 1 large orange sliced (plus more for garnish)
▢ sea salt sugar, and orange zest for garnish

Instructions

Heat cloves, peppercorns, allspice, and cinnamon sticks in a skillet over medium heat. Allow to heat and crackle, but do not burn. When the aroma is fragrant, remove from heat.
Heat a dutch oven or stockpot over low heat. Add the wine, agave, brown sugar, cider, juice, liqueur, tequila, orange slices, and toasted spices into the pot and stir to combine. Simmer, covered, for at least an hour.
After an hour, strain the mixture and return to the pot without the spices.
Serve in glasses rimmed with a mixture of sea salt, sugar, and orange zest and garnish with a fresh orange slice and cinnamon stick.
Enjoy!

Last step! Don’t forget to show me a pic of what you made! Upload an image or tag me @thecookierookie on Instagram!

Nutrition Information

Calories: 208kcal (10%) Carbohydrates: 42g (14%) Sodium: 10mg Potassium: 171mg (5%) Fiber: 1g (4%) Sugar: 37g (41%) Vitamin A: 70IU (1%) Vitamin C: 17.5mg (21%) Calcium: 48mg (5%) Iron: 0.4mg (2%)