2024-01-08 12:44:16
“With the drop in consumption and climate change, it becomes complicated to make wine, you have to try other things in addition”: with Mont Ventoux in the background and contemplating its Chastel-Samson de Visan vineyard, in the Papal Enclave, in Vaucluse, James Samson knows that he is about to take a step forward. In the spring, this 40-year-old farmer, representing the fourth generation on these lands, will uproot five hectares of vines out of the twenty-five he owns to plant truffle holm oaks previously “mycorrhized” (symbiosis between a fungus and a plant). ). With the hope, within seven to eight years, of harvesting tuber melanosporum, better known as black truffle, at their feet. A black diamond whose price is around 600 euros per kilo and which soared to more than 1,000 euros just before Christmas. A way to deal with wine overproduction which affects part of the Rhône valley terroirs by diversifying crops.
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He will be accompanied throughout the process by specialists from the Vaucluse company Plantin which exports black truffles throughout the world but which sometimes struggles to find producers, to the point that Spain has now surpassed France in quantity. truffles straight from the ground. Plantin thus undertakes to purchase all future harvests.
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