Truffle Alba, thrill Enzo Iacchetti damages one by making it fall
The most prestigious truffle of the lot to the famous auction of the White truffle from Sunrise flew up to Hong Kong. A manager was awarded the piece weighing in 830 g for the record figure of 103 thousand euros. At the castle of Grinzane Cavour, – reads the Messenger – in worldwide connection, over 457 thousand euros were collected. Instead, the other three white Alba truffles of 230, 250 and 400 grams went to a Danish entrepreneur and two Italian entrepreneurs. The final lot – after a battle in which Italy (Franco Boriani tried Grinzane with a group of entrepreneurs), Hong Kong and Moscow – went, as is now almost traditional, to Hong Kong.
The event – continues the Messenger – began with a thrill. Enzo Iacchetti, one of the three presenters, goes around the room with the first batch lying on a riser. The price exceeds 5,000 euros when, inadvertently, Iacchetti tilts the tray and the truffle falls to the ground breaking. «It has not broken, it has not broken! Frost in the room. Caterina Balivo, agitated, closes the sale: 230 grams, 5100 euros and photos of the man who won it, Kim Pedersen, a Korean-born entrepreneur who owns a restaurant in Copenhagen.
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