By Robert Simonson

The holidays are shot through with nuts. We stuff them inside our turkeys, cookies and fruitcakes. Without them, decorative nutcrackers are just garish tchotchkes. Where we don't expect nuts is in our glasses. But that is easily rectified.

There is arguably no liquor with a more natural Christmas aura than nocino (pronounced no-CHEE-no), a traditional Italian liqueur derived from green, unripe walnuts. It is made from fruit harvested in the spring and is usually ready to drink just in time for the holidays. 

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