Book review:”Travel Truffle” by Denis Hervier

Denis is a columnist Hervier passionate about wine and gastronomy and it is constantly seeking new agreements with the “black diamond”, the black truffle is so rich in opportunities for associations and opening the doors of ecstasy great taste.

His books Truffle form a small book of a hundred pages introducing us into the world of melanosporum: small interviews with chefs, like Michel Portos, one of the best truffle in the Hexagon, or Pierre- Jean Pebeyre, a truffle trader who gives us a lot about the difficulty of the current market for truffles. On the menu, it also gives us some recipes … and especially his favorite heart for wines that occupy the greater part of this little book.


For his research alliances wine-truffle (this is called “trufficoter”), Denis Hervier visit with us several regions: Loire, Burgundy, Rhone Valley and Bordeaux, of course, one suspects, a prolonged side Pomerol.

A glossary followed by 4 pages very informative “The commandments of trufficoteur” Cahiers Truffle closure which can only delight all lovers of the truffle lovers or simply attracted by it.