Our friends Anne-Marie and Patrick were for dinner last week and they brought a present of a bottle.

Anne-Marie’s family had owned a vinyard in the village until the middle of the last century when they had sold on the land.
She had inherited the old house which had the cave in the cellar.
This has remained untouched for the last 50 + years and is a bit of a time capsule, every so often they find a treasure there and this was one they gave to me, knowing my propensity for making up various fruit (and nut) “alcools”.

The bottle is labelled “Alcool 92% 1940”. I really had no option with this but to make up some Vin de Noix, especially as the Walnuts were just now in their perfect state of green under-ripeness.

I will let you know how it goes.