Nociato, or nocino wine, is a liqueur wine that you can obtain by second infusion of green walnuts, into white wine, mostly a pecorino.
A recipe typical from Abruzzo and in general the Appennines, nociato will make for a wonderful alternative to a “passito” to finish your meals in a classy way, but can be also slowly sipped to make your content creation funnier! In Italy we call this “vino da meditazione”… but meditation is not actually involved here, lol.
Nociato is also known as nocino wine, since it is a brilliant idea to give a second life to the walnuts, exhausted from the nocino preparation. You can read here how to make a wonderful nocino (I really mean it!). After filtering the nocino, in your glass jar you will still have a treasure… read below to understand how to take advantage of it!
And if you don’t have a large glass jar, I have found this one for you!
Homemade nociato (aka nocino wine)
Equipment
- 1 strainer you can add a filter for coffee
Ingredients
- 35 the exhausted walnuts from nocino preparation
- 2 bottles pecorino wine another dry white wine (e.g. frascati) will work just fine
Instructions
- After the preparation of your nocino, you will have all those exhausted walnuts, looking completely black. Those are not a waste, since…
- … now you can pour the pecorino wine into them, and seal it the jar once again.
- After a couple of weeks, you will filter the wine, that will have absorbed all the flavors (and a bit of additional alcohol) from the walnuts. Let it rest in the bottles for at least one week, …
- … than your first homemade nociato is ready to end your meals with class! Or to be sipped while creating content 😉 Enjoy!
Notes
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Buon appetito!
4 Comments
This is excellent! Do you store the finished nociato in the refrigerator? And, about how long is it good for? First time making this, so I’m just curious.
I also have a couple of bottles of nocino that are finished and hanging out for another month or two. Excited about those!
hi Michael! no, I keep it in a fresh and dark closet, no need to refrigerate it. I still drink last year one and still good after about 10 months. Pretty excited too for my incoming nocino, 1 month still and I filter it, keep finger crossed 🙂
Thanks for your comment, share with your friends who love Italian food if you feel so. Grazie!
Good to know! Thank you for the information. I am excited to try these soon. Cheers, and best wishes with this year’s nocino!
thank you! fingers crossed 🙂