Vaucluse. “The black truffle is an enigma”: a half-fig half-grape season

A tapping sun, but never in great heat. Some spring rains and not the shadow of an episode of drought. Even “the tip of the ancients”, the little cold stroke necessary for the exhalation of the perfumes of the black truffle, took place just before the launch of the season. All the conditions were a priori met for this year to be a great vintage. At least that is what Vaucluse truffle culutors thought.

“We were all in euphoria, rewind Benoît Michelet. Until November, it was a flawless. We really expected an exceptional year. In January, it is clear that nature, however, was capricious.

“It is far from being as catastrophic as last year, but it is not up to our expectations,” sighs the young …