A Distillery Dog with a Nose for Truffles

In late December, Amanda Humphrey and a Lagotto Romagnolo named Star paid a visit to NewTown Truffiere, Margaret Townsend’s twenty-five-acre truffle orchard outside Scottsville, Kentucky. Humphrey, who oversees guest experiences at Maker’s Mark’s Star Hill Farm and looks after Star, had brought the then-sixteen-month-old pup for a truffle-hunting lesson from Townsend and her trained Lagotto, Luca. “I was talking with Margaret, and Star came up behind me with a truffle in his mouth like he was saying, ‘Mom, is this what you’re looking for?’” Humphrey recalls. “After that, he was nose to the ground. It was like a switch went off.”

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