Walnuts and Prunes from Domaine du Garinet
Both walnuts and prunes have long been traditional crops of our region. Although we are primarily a wine-producing property, we also have a walnut orchard and a small plum orchard for making prunes. We sell high quality walnuts and prunes, and we also use them to make a range of delicious preserves and baked products.
All these are normally sold from the Domaine or at Montcuq market on Sunday mornings. Please contact us if you might wish to have them delivered elsewhere.
Walnuts
We sell our walnuts in the shell and also in shelled form as walnut kernels. The nuts in shell are carefully selected from the best of the crop, and the kernels are always freshly shelled – this makes a great difference to the flavour, and supermarket kernels are no comparison.
Our quality walnut oil is pressed for us at Moulin de La Tour, a C16th watermill in the Dordogne, using kernels shelled by us from our nuts. It is excellent in vinaigrette, and for dressing pasta or vegetables.
Our walnut bread, cakes and walnut-and-fig brownies are highly sought after at the market – come early to be sure they’re not sold out!
Plums for prunes
Prunes
We sell our prunes either dry for keeping, or ready-to-eat, and we have an excellent range of preserves, all made by us from our own produce and other locally grown ingredients. These include Prunes in Cahors Wine, Sweet Pickled Prunes, a prune/orange jam (Favorite de Sophie) and Prune Chutney. Our objective for all these products is the same as for our wine – consistently high quality.
Other Products
We make an excellent jelly from our malbec grapes, rich and dark, and also quince jelly from quinces grown on our property. We have an ‘alien’ product – marmalade - (no, we don’t have an orange grove - the oranges are bought from Seville!). The product supplies deprived English residents but also has a considerable following from French customers who really appreciate its qualities.
Price List
Prices are valid until 31 December 2010 and include VAT.
| •Walnuts and Walnut Products | ||
| Whole unshelled walnuts | 3.40€/15.50€ | 1kg pkt/5kg nets |
| Freshly shelled walnut kernels | 4.00€ | 200g |
| Walnut oil | 9.00€ | 25cl |
| •Prunes and Prune Products | ||
| Freshly prepared ready-to-eat prunes | 1.10€ /2.20€ | 250g / 500g |
| Unprepared dry prunes | 4.40€ | 1kg |
| Prunes in Cahors wine | 4.00€ /5.50€ | 380g / 500g jars |
| Favorite de Sophie (prune and orange jam) | 3.70€ | 340g jars |
| Sweet pickled prunes | 3.40€ | 340g jars |
| Chutney aux Pruneaux | 3.70€ | 340g jars |
| Prune and apple pie filling | 6.50€ | 500g jars |
| •Other preserves | ||
| Grape Jelly | 3.50€ | 340g jars |
| Quince Jelly | 3.50€ | 340g jars |
| Marmalade - with or without walnuts | 3.80€ | 340g jars |
| •Baked Products | ||
| Walnut bread | 0.55€/3.00€ | roll/loaf |
| Walnut and fig brownies | 0.40€/4.00€ | each/packets of ten |
| Walnut cakes - plain, or with chopped prunes: | ||
| - individual size | 1.50€ | |
| - 8-portion cake | 10.00€ | |
| - 10-portion cake | 13.00€ |
Baked products are freshly made for the Sunday market at Montcuq, and are sometimes available from the freezer at Domaine du Garinet. We are happy to do extra bakings to order.
Gluten-free walnut cakes available to order, sizes and prices as for standard cakes above.