Nocino: Green Walnuts, Folklore & Fall Cocktails
This week on Into The Barchive, hosts Tim Wright and Dr. Blake Jones explore one of the darker and more unusual bottles behind the bar: nocino, the bittersweet walnut liqueur that tastes like autumn and comes with centuries of tradition, folklore, and a little midsummer mystery.
Traditionally made by macerating green, unripe walnuts in alcohol with sugar and sometimes spices like cinnamon and cloves, nocino occupies an interesting space between a liqueur and an amaro. Its flavors can range from black walnut and dark caramel to baking spice, herbs, bitter chocolate, coffee, vanilla, and…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.