Helsinki Christmas Market: Glögi by Helsinki Distilling Company
One of the best ways to enjoy glögi is in the crisp outdoors among all the lights at the Helsinki Christmas Market in the Senate Square. The Helsinki Distilling Company and Hommanäs Gård have jointly created a new type of mulled wine, which combines black currant and traditional Christmas spices with aromatic Helsinki Dry Gin. The flavor includes gin's juniper berry and citrus, combined with cinnamon, cloves and orange. This delicious artisan mulled wine is completely preservative-free.
Café Ursula: Benefactor's glögi
This lovely gooseberry-blackcurrant mulled wine made in Ursula is a fresh and comforting warmer for the winter season. Glögi is developed in Ursula and its profits, like the rest of the cafe's activities, are directed to charity organisations. Glögi is available in the restaurant by the glass non-alcoholic or with alcohol. Glögi concentrate is on sale in a 500ml glass bottle to take with you as a gift, as a party favor or for your own enjoyment. You can enjoy your glögi in a lovely seaside location.
Teatteri Baari: Spicy ginger glögi
In the theater's atmospheric lobby bar, you can still gather for aperitifs before the Christmas holidays, or have a small Christmas get-together with a group of friends. Spicy ginger mulled wine warms you up wonderfully and also washes away possible colds as you go!
Patisserie Teemu Aura: Spicy fruity glögi
Either buy the bottle to heat and enjoy at home or drink up at the cafe. Patisserie Teemu Aura has created a fruity, cherry based glögg that the whole family could enjoy. Their non alcoholic mulled wine is packed with spicy flavours and fruity undertones of blueberry and black currant.
Café Ekberg: Red wine-blackcurrant-orange glögi
The oldest café in Helsinki came up with its latest glögi recipe around 10 years ago. The ingredients include red wine, blackcurrant juice and fresh-squeezed orange juice. We recommend you enjoy it with Ekberg’s gingerbread cookies, the recipe for which stretches back more than a century!
Café Strindberg: Glögi in the heart of the city
Café Strindberg is a staple in Helsinki city centre, the restaurant as well as the cafe have served both non alcoholic and alcoholic glögi for many years now. If you choose to sip your mulled wine at the cafe then do opt to sit at the terrace. That way you can feel the sun's rays, in the frosty weather which will only make the hot drink taste better! They also serve mulled wine in their upstairs restaurant.
Café Regatta: Glögi by the campfire
While enjoying a refreshing walk during the Christmas season you can stop by the quaint Café Regatta by the seaside and warm up with a hot drink. The smoke from the fire and music from the radio create the perfect atmosphere for sipping your non-alcoholic glögi. You can even grill your own sausage on the fire!
Did you know?
Glögi came to Finland around the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries from Sweden, where the spicy mulled wine is referred to as glögg. It grew in popularity in the 1930s after the prohibition years in the form of a spirit-based Christmas warmer (“Jouluhehku”). Most Finnish glögi these days is made using red wine, sugar and spices, such as cloves, cinnamon, cardamom, bitter orange peels, ginger and vanilla, but it can also be made from stronger wines, blackcurrant juice and vodka or other spirit. The finishing touch is to add raisins and almonds, either whole or sliced. Since the 1960s glögi has been the traditional hot drink in Helsinki during the Christmas season.