Ten reasons to love your lagotto
As if you need any more reasons! Duggy the truffle hound has been part of our pack for just over a year now and we couldn't imagine life...
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Bianca
- Aug 7
- 1 min
Chez Emia
It's official, your chance to sleep among the truffle trees is here! Nestled in amongst the spindly Perigordian oak trees, below the...
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Bianca
- Apr 30
- 2 min
Truffle Brûlée
No delicious recipes here, but a closer look at mysterious burnt patches of ground - a tell tale sign that truffles are lurking. Beneath...
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Bianca
- Apr 9
- 4 min
How to: prune a young 'truffle' tree
When I say a young truffle tree, I really mean the Quercus Ilex inoculated with the Perigord Truffle at 1-4 years. When we travel around...
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Bianca
- Apr 7
- 4 min
Sniffing out the UK's Truffles
Truffle hunting in The Cotswolds: the gastronomic treasures laying right beneath your feet. 11am, December 25th 2021. “What have you got...
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Bianca
- Nov 13, 2021
- 7 min
How to train your Truffle Dog
"Well, has he found any yet?". Hopefully this is a question on many of your minds. "He" referring to Duggy of course and "any" meaning...
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Bianca
- Sep 17, 2021
- 4 min
Doing the Truffle Snuffle
The power of the supersnout - will Duggy be a truffle finding machine?
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Chris
- Jun 27, 2021
- 4 min
Business is Blooming!
Orchids - The flowers that provide even more encouragement for the future prospects of the truffière at Le Haut Repaire. As spring turns...
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Bianca
- May 29, 2021
- 5 min
Very noire
The mysterious and filthy underground life cycle of the Black Diamond. It is May and the world outside is waking up. My senses are...
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Bianca
- May 2, 2021
- 4 min
The doors are open - Bienvenue!
Le Haut Repaire opens its doors for the first time this summer and invites visitors throughout the year. From the privileged setting in...
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Chris
- Mar 26, 2021
- 10 min
Happy Easter Everyone - May all your eggs be Truffled!
This month, we thought it was the right time to introduce the first of our favourite truffle recipes - Truffled and scrambled duck eggs...
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Chris
- Feb 24, 2021
- 5 min
One man and his fly
Introducing my new best friend - Suillia tuberiperda. Here’s the little fella! Sitting peacefully on a stick. Don’t reach for your fly...
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Bianca
- Jan 22, 2021
- 5 min
Truffle markets of the Périgord
Thinking of the Dordogne in South West France, images float gently through the mind of sun baked medieval towns and villages; rivers...
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Bianca
- Dec 10, 2020
- 5 min
Types of Truffle
Have you ever heard people getting excited about truffles? Have you tried one and then wondered what all the fuss was about? Well, the...
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Bianca
- Nov 24, 2020
- 6 min
History and lore of truffles
A brief history of the truffle Somewhere deep in the folds of human psyche, the knowledge that TRUFFLES ARE DELICIOUS is built into us....
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