Our version is made with red wine from Montinore Estates: the grapes are certified organic and Demeter certified biodynamic. Christian Brothers brandy used at one part per five parts of wine. Certified organic cane sugar, organic vanilla beans, orange peel, and cloves are also added. The green walnut fruits were harvested from our own 100-year-old English walnut tree on the Kookoolan Farms property – never treated with any synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides or other chemicals. The green walnut fruits are harvested young, when the fruits are just formed and still soft enough that a sewing needle can be easily passed through the center. Then the fruits are quartered, and all is macerated and allowed to steep and blend for about four months, then solids strained out and the wine bottled. The result is smooth, mellow, aromatic, rich dark mahogany in color, and unlike anything modern.