A weekend of wine and truffles

Luxury boutique hotel Crillon le Brave, located 25 miles northeast of Avignon, in south-eastern France, wants you to mark your calendar with the dates for its 2015 truffle hunting weekends. Guests will go truffle hunting and help with food preparation, taste wines and visit the local antique market for the ultimate Provençal experience.

A charming 36-room boutique hotel, Crillon le Brave is well placed for you to find some of the best truffles in France, and now the hotel is offering three English-speaking wine and truffle hunting weekends for the 2015 early-truffle season.

During the Saturday morning of the truffle hunting and wine weekend, guests will learn how to cook and prepare truffles during a cooking demonstration with Crillon le Brave’s Head Chef, Jérôme Blanchet. Jérôme will be teaching guests his secrets behind creating his signature truffle dishes such as: Duck foie gras pot au feu (beef broth) with black truffle potato gnocchi.

Following Jérôme’s cooking demonstration guests will have the opportunity to spend the afternoon visiting Châteauneuf-du-Papes’s finest winery estates, where they will taste a selection of sumptuous local red and white wines.

Waking up on Sunday morning, guests arise to the outstanding views surrounding the hotel and can make the most of the local environment by making their own way to the famous antiques shops and Sunday morning farmer’s market and stands in the scenic l'Isle sur la Sorgue. Regarded as the antique capital of the region, the “Venice of Provence,” l'Isle sur la Sorgue is named after the clear water canals that run through the pretty town.

To conclude a magical evening, guests will be treated to a delicious truffle infused dinner at Crillon le Brave.

Eric Jaumard, Provence’s truffle expert, has teamed up with Crillon le Brave and will be leading the three extraordinary truffle hunting experiences on Friday morning with his trusted dog. Guests will go hunting for truffles with Eric followed by a rustic lunch. Following an exhilarating morning foraging for truffles with the expert , guests will have an afternoon at their leisure to do as much or as little as they like before a delicious dinner at Crillon le Brave.

English speaking tours: (for groups of up to 16 people)

Thursday 5th November to Sunday 8th November

Thursday 19th November to Sunday 22nd November

Thursday 26th November to Sunday 29th November

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