Each July, Forthave founders Aaron Fox and Daniel de la Nuez spend a week in New York’s Hudson Valley picking fresh, underripe walnuts from black walnut trees to produce this extremely limited walnut liqueur. Based on the traditional spirit nocino, BLACK is singularly focused on this sole botanical and requires eighteen months to fully develop its depth of flavor—after a nine-month spirit maceration, the walnuts are strained and the spirit sweetened before a nine-month resting period in stainless steel and glass demijohns that are placed near the windows of the distillery to sun-mature, adding extra layers of nutty complexity.

ABV 24%