Glühwein Recipe

I am consolidating some recipes to make glühwein now that Xmas is just 60 + days away.

Rezept 1:
1) Place 1/2 cup water in a large saucepan with a piece of cinnamon, ginger, orange zest, 8 cloves, and 3/8 cup sugar.
2) Bring to a boil and simmer to a thick syrup.
3) Pour in 3 cups red wine.
4) Heat to just below the boiling point.
5) Pour the wine into individual glasses.

f you wish, add a cinnamon stick and orange slice to each glass.
Serve hot.

Rezept 2:
1 bottle dry red table wine
4-5 tbs. granulated sugar, or to taste
1 cinnamon stick, broken into 4-5 pieces
10-15 whole cloves, or to taste
washed rind of 1 lemon, cut in a continuous spiral strip

Heat all ingredients in heavy-bottomed pan. Simmer for approximately five minutes before serving, be careful not to let it come to a boil. Strain and pour into glasses (insert metal spoon to disperse the heat and prevent the glass from cracking). Top with freshly ground nutmeg, if you like an extra spicy whiff. Keep remaining mulled wine on hot plate, but remove lemon rind, letting it spiral from the lip down into the pot for decoration.