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A couple of weeks ago, in pursuit of knowledge to be inserted into my next book on truffles, I was fortunate enough to be able to visit the Truffle & Wine Company<\/a>‘s truffiere in Manjimup, Western Australia — said to be the most productive truffi\u00e8re in the world. The company is coy about revealing numbers, but the Manjimup region probably produced somewhere between 5 and 7 tonnes of Perigord black truffles this winter, and most of those came from the 13,000 trees in the Truffle & Wine Co plantation. At the peak of the harvest, the company was washing and grading as much as 200kg of truffle per day<\/em> — almost certainly more than New Zealand’s total melanosporum<\/em> harvest over the entire winter season.<\/p>\n The truffi\u00e8re was established in 1997 and produced its first truffles in 2003. There’s a picture of their first 1kg truffle in The Truffle Book<\/em>. Since that book was published the Manjimup harvest has increased by leaps and bounds, and WA truffles are now exported around the world — including to France. It’s a fascinating demonstration of what is possible in a well-managed southern hemisphere truffi\u00e8re, and it’s no surprise that the number of truffle trees planted around Manjimup is increasing rapidly.<\/p>\n Also on display at Manjimup was the truffle aroma wheel developed by Professor Garry Lee of the University of Western Australia, launched at the recent Australian Truffle Growers Association<\/a> conference in Tasmania.<\/p>\n For a higher resolution version, click here<\/a>. For more on its potential uses, see the ABC report on the launch<\/a>.<\/p>\n I haven’t yet had a chance to discuss the aroma wheel with Professor Lee, but will do so soon. There will be more in the next book…<\/p>\n My thanks to Harry Eslick, who guided our little tour party around the truffi\u00e8re and answered almost all of my questions… \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" …where truffle harvests are measured in tonnes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[131,13,132,120,133],"class_list":["post-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-wine","category-truffles-farm","tag-aroma-wheel","tag-australia","tag-manjimup","tag-perigord-black-truffles","tag-truffle-wine-co"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1300,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions\/1300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Aromawheelsmall\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Aromawheelsmall.jpg?resize=474%2C675&ssl=1\")
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