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was not top quality and would have tended to be at the lower end of the price range, Mr Réjou said. “It was classified in the lower category in terms of its aroma, which is always the case – the bigger a truffle is, the harder it is to mature in a uniform way.” He estimated the going price was around €6-800/kg, to make the cost €736-€981. Now the truffle will go on show in Mr Dutrouilh’s shop
THE LARGEST truffle to be found in Périgord has been sold at Sarlat truffle market – weighing a bumper 1.227kg. The find – by a truffle grower who lives in the Périgueux area but wants to remain anonymous – easily beats the previous record for a Périgord truffle which was 1.170kg. Patrick Réjou, of the Périgord Federation of Truffle Growers, said the new record holder may never give up its taste secrets as a shopkeeper has It’s quite inexplicable it bought it to show off in his window, should have been so big along with other truffle products – it’s a particularly and walnuts. The record- strange phenomenon breaker, which was Patrick Réjou of the prized black Truffle Growers Federation Périgord variety (tuber melanoin the Halles in the centre of sporum) was bought in the town. He is “having a special Saturday morning market glass jar blown for it – as it is during the annual Sarlat so big – and will be preserving Truffle Festival. it in liquid to display it.” It is not known what shopMr Réjou said the size was keeper Jacques Dutrouilh, astonishing: “It’s quite inexpliknown as “Jacques le Basque” cable it should have been so paid but prices were varying big: all the more because the between €650-€900 a kilotree it came from is 25 years gram depending on quality. Unfortunately, although it was black Périgord variety it Î Turn to Page 7
Photo: Michel Pitout for Sud Ouest
1.2kg truffle sets Dordogne record
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Local restaurateur Nicolas Rousseau, who specialises in truffles, could not resist the aroma of the new record-holder
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