Recipe: Punch and red wine reduction cocktail

City Social has created the perfect answer to the mulled wine with a milk-clarified punch and a pipette of red wine reduction

City Social, London. Bar manager: Arsid Kapllanaj

To make the punch mix

• 700ml Woodford Reserve
• 350ml Saccharum clementine
• 280ml lemon juice
• 165ml whole milk

Combine all the ingredients except the milk. Pour into a container, add the milk and let it sit for 30 minutes. Double-strain the mix with blue cloth and decant into a bottle.

To make the Saccharum clementine

• 20 clementine peels
• 1kg sugar

Combine the ingredients in a sealed container and let them sit for 24 hours.

To make the red wine reduction

• 500ml La Guerre de Bouchons
• 3 cinnamon sticks
• 3 star anise
• 5 clementine peels
• 75ml sugar syrup

Combine the ingredients except the sugar in a saucepan and heat for three minutes. Add the sugar and cook for another minute.

To make the cocktail

• 55ml punch mix
• 3ml red wine reduction

Double strain the punch mix and pour into a bodega glass with an ice block. Serve the red wine reduction in a pipette on the side.