Comments on: Postcards from Umbria: Nocino

By: rebecca

rebecca — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 12:47:29 +0000

Thanks for stopping by and your comments! Let me know how your nocino comes out (a couple of years from now when it’s had a chance to age :))

By: Gian Banchero

Gian Banchero — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 05:45:22 +0000

Hello… I shall try this recipe and credit you, I’ve never made it with rose petals, it sounds wonderful!! I have a thirty year old walnut walnut tree that was started in Spain and brought to California as a sapling which has been the foundation for the many a gallon of nocino I’ve made over the years. Thank you so much for the recipe and the date as when to pick the walnuts (I forget every year). I know this recipe is a winner!
Gian Banchero, Berkeley, California

By: rebecca

rebecca — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 19:44:15 +0000

I have a recipe for a liqueur made with the flowers of wild fennel…do you think it’s the same thing?

By: Rosemary

Rosemary — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:33:30 +0000

I’m sure we tried this in Italy — I wondered — My husband loved a liquor called Finocello (I think – it was was made from fennel) – do you also have a recipe for that? Or know how we can purchase some?

By: rebecca

rebecca — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:49:20 +0000

Nocello sounds good! Nocino is too strong for me, frankly, but I think it’s a taste that you acquire by growing up with it. Perhaps a milder Nocello-style liqueur would be more my thing. Hmmm….

By: Diana Strinati Baur

Diana Strinati Baur — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:09:36 +0000

I did it in 2006 and still have a couple of bottles. I bring it out for special occasions and holidays. I open it up and the scent is wonderful. Nocino is a big part of the culture where my family comes from — in Emilia Romagna. Nocello, which is another type of walnut liquor which also has hazlenuts, made in Modena I believe, graced every Christmas table I can remember as a child. We always got a little sip. The Nocino I made is decidedly stronger (I think the hazelnuts mellow the Nocello a great deal), but I think I was upholding tradition by making it. I missed San Giovanni this year, too busy (AGAIN) but I will do it in 2011 and make enough to give to special people.

Baci.