Sad season 07-08

[julot-les-pinceaux]

Only 130kg exchanged at the third Lalbenque market of the season (350 last year). Yet prices remained acceptable, between 400 and 700 (wholesale for professional) and actually a tad lower than last year.

The season has been bad for veggies, then for mushrooms, then for white truffle, and no miracle happened for black truffle alas. It is surprising that prices were not higher given the volumes, that said.

Another thing that this number remind us of, is that great truffles specialists are not only good at cooking them; they are very good at buying them. Obviously it is easier to generously shave 40g of truffle on a dish when you pay 400e/kg for it than when you pay 1000€, as we mere mortals do.

Still, not sure that it is the good year to have the Feuilleté Belle Humeur at l'Ambroisie or the truffle menu at Rostang.