THE TRUFFLE
The label of origin of black truffle of Tricastin (To tube melanos-porum vittadini) also called "black Diamond" extends on 68 communes from Drôme (1st French trufficole area). This truffle is the same one as that of Périgord. It is recognizable between all by its perfume, powerful and wild.
Harvest is done during the winter season. The dog marks the presence of truffle by scraping the ground. It is using a fouji (hook) that the truffle grower gives off truffle.
In Tricastin, it pushes under the holms oaks and white, but remains one year a capricious production, ever ensured on the other.
Every Sunday morning from the end of November to the end of February, market with truffles for the private individuals with Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux, and the professionals with Taulignan (Drôme) and Richerenches (Enclaves of the Popes, Vaucluse). The passion for this mysterious mushroom, from the truffle growers of the area will make you divide it at the time of days devoted to truffle: Excavation, guided tour at the market of truffle with Richerenches, meal with fresh truffles from November in mid-March
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