Appleberry mulled wine

Name: Appleberry mulled wine
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 30 min
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 2 x 75cl bottles red wine (such as Merlot; better quality wine makes all the difference); 1l good-quality cloudy apple juice; 115g caster sugar; 1long cinnamon stick , snapped in half; 2 star anise; 3 tbsp orange Curaçao or Cointreau; a handful or so (about 100g/4oz) frozen mulled fruit or fruits of the forest or Black Forest fruits; 3small red-skinned apples , sliced into rings