Aggazzotti Modena Notte di S. Giovanni Liquer Nocino Riserva Walnut Liqueur 750 ML

Aggazzotti Modena Notte di S. Giovanni Liquer Nocino Riserva Walnut Liqueur 750 MLNocino is Emilia Romagnas wonderful secret, and the Aggazzotti family has a sacred endowment of 1,400 walnut trees. On the feast day of San Giovanni (June 24th), the walnuts for Nocino production are picked when they are soft and green. Then they are carefully split and macerated with a neutral spirit in glass demijohns for a year. The demijohns are exposed to sunlight in the Aggazzottis open air aging room, giving the Nocino its distinctive dark,

Nocino is Emilia-Romagna’s wonderful secret, and the Aggazzotti family has a sacred endowment of 1,400 walnut trees. On the feast day of San Giovanni (June 24th), the walnuts for Nocino production are picked when they are soft and green. Then they are carefully split and macerated with a neutral spirit in glass demijohns for a year. The demijohns are exposed to sunlight in the Aggazzotti’s open-air aging room, giving the Nocino its distinctive dark, almost black hue. After this year of maceration, the spirit is transferred to stainless tanks and blended with spices and then ages for another four years before bottling. What are the spices? Well, that’s the secret, preserved within the family since the 1800s, and they themselves in being among the few to adhere to this extraordinary, time-honored technique. The Notte di San Giovanni is a hard-to-resist brew of spiked walnut, a savory molten tar of raisin and burnt sugar. Besides neat, we love this stirred with a brown spirit in place of a vermouth. Have your Nocino this holiday season, anyway you like it.