The winter of 2017 here in New Zealand's central North Island has been warm and dry so far.

But that is no reason not to drink mulled wine!

Ingredients:
Cheap Red Wine
Cinnamon stick
Whole cloves
Allspice
Orange juice (preferably fresh)
Mandarin segments
Mandarins peel
Spoon of brown sugar

Method:
There are no required measurements. Just make it to taste. Add a little and taste. Add more of what you think is lacking.
Put your cloves in a small muslin bag or a tea ball and hang it in a large saucepan. Pour in wine and add all other ingredients.
Heat over a low heat and stir often. Do not let the mixture boil as this will spoil the taste. And be warned that the longer you heat the wine the less alcoholic it will become due to wines volatile nature, i.e it will speed up the natural evaporation that results in alcohol content loss.
When the wine is warmed to a palatable temperature serve in cups or mugs and quaff that hearty draft of liquid.

Steamy goodness.

Just enough to rouse the spirits and inflate positive moral.

Have a great rest of the year whichever hemisphere you live in.

When it snows on the distant actively volcanic mountains (Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe (Mt Doom), and Tongariro) across the lake, but never in your back yard, you have to make do with paper flakes instead.

Sources:
https://www.quora.com/Does-alcohol-partly-evaporate-from-wine-when-you-heat-it