I want to make
vin de noix and I'm looking for a local source for green walnuts.
My preferred source - a black walnut tree in a relative's yard in Traverse City - suffered a traumatic collapse last year and doesn't appear to be producing fruit this season.
My other option - thefting some fruit from the huge walnut tree in front St. Mary's-on-the-Lake Church on Sheridan - would involve precipitous tree-climbing and possibly a ticket to Hell (if my lapsed-Catholic wife is to be believed).
Any ideas? More directly, do any of you LTH'ers have access to a walnut tree that you would be willing to let me pilfer? I'd need about three dozen walnuts or so, and there'd be a bottle of hooch in it for you come late fall.
Fillay
"Grenache is Catholic, Mourvèdre is Huguenot"
- Fabrice Langlois, Château de Beaucastel