For the Italian wine rings, soak the anise seeds in red wine for more than 10 minutes.
Chop the hazelnuts not too finely, roast them in a pan without oil until they smell good and let them cool briefly.
With a mixer, or in a food processor with dough hook, mix all the ingredients until a homogeneous, shiny dough.
Preheat the oven to 180 °C.
Divide the dough into small portions, shape with your fingers into rolls about 10 cm long and 1 cm thick, and press them together at the ends to form rings.
Dip the top of the Italian wine rings in the coarse sugar and bake for 20 minutes.