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Thanks!....very tempting. but I was thinking about trying to make some, and wondered what it tastes like or if anyone makes it with black walnuts....etc...and wine vs. liqueur
 
That's an interesting idea of making a wine from walnuts as opposed to a liqueur. I sure wouldn't use the green walnuts as was mentioned in the article. I have eaten green walnuts and they taste terrible. :shake: They have a bitter tannin taste to them. :barf: If I were going to try making a wine from walnuts, I'd use only the ripe ones. But the question in my mind is whether any fruit is added. I could be wrong, but it just seems to me that walnuts by themselves would not have all that much flavor. Besides, you would have to add some kind of sugar to feed the yeast. Plain old common table sugar wouldn't bring much flavor to the finished product. I don't have any idea what the original recipe may have called for :idunno: but I just think that some fruit such as raisins, dates, etc. would be needed.

If you make some, let me know how it turns out and what you used to make it.
 
Well I'm told it's a similar manner of production to Limoncello, which I make every year, so one would be steeping the outer portion of the nut-rind in spirits, and then diluting with water and sugar or dilution with wine. However....black walnuts might be a bit too strong to use over the common or English walnut.

On the other hand if it proved bad for drinking it would probably make a good dye for leather or wood.

LD
 
My take on it isn't that you are making wine from walnuts, but rather infusing wine with walnuts.....most recipes I have see call for aging it for several years.

Yes, every recipe I have seen calls for young green walnuts before the shell has time to harden....the same as pickled walnuts.
 
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