2024 vintage of award winning Nocino, Okanagan walnuts aged for 2 years in ex-bourbon barrels!
The successor to our CASK award -winning vintage comes this years Barrel-aged Nocino- 2024 vintage. The beautiful thing about vintages is that they tell a story, making every one unique. Friends of The Woods may have noticed that we have skipped a year, moving straight from 2022 to 2024. The wildfires in the Okanagan made harvesting extremely difficult over the past few years, and so we decided to reserve some cask stock from previous harvests. That is part of the story in this vintage. In doing so we have created the best Nocino yet- aged for 2 years in bourbon barrels- Nocino 2024 has a complexity and character that only time in a cask can create. This additional cask maturation has changed everything. The bright aromatic spice our Nocino is known for has evolved tremendously, creating an extremely rich complement of flavors from toasted cacao and caramelized brown sugar to gingersnaps and fruit cake. What was a delicious bomb of fragrant rich walnut liqueur has built character and depth. Nutty Nicaraguan coffee, black cherries and fresh orange zest spill out of this spirit, followed by an incredibly soft and rounded finish.
