Description

Fresh Black Winter Truffle Melanosporum

– It’s fresh truffle freshly picked by our truffles.
– Truffles from the Maestrazgo area, in the eastern center of Spain.
– Natural truffle: It is not a culture truffle.

  • Ingredients:
    1000 g. Fresh Black Winter Truffle Melanosporum
  • Truffle Type:
    Black Winter Truffle Melanosporum

This truffle is the black winter truffle, also known as Périgord truffle. There are wild and cultivated black winter truffles. The Spanish production of Tuber melanosporum represents 40% of global production. This truffle reaches a price of 3,000 euros a kg.

Black winter truffles vary in size from a pea-size to a tennis ball or bigger, and can weigh up to 1 kg. Its aroma is intense and persistent, variable and difficult to define. Always use black winter truffles if cooking the truffle as the aroma are deeper and longer lasting than the white truffle. Its appearance is unattractive: They are externally coated with brown-black warts, sometimes reddish at the base. The inside of the truffle is purplish-black and streaked with white veins.

Black winter truffles are associated with the roots of oaks and hazels in limestone terrains. They ripen from December to March. Harvesting is regulated by spanish law and must be conducted by specially-trained dogs. Digging must be carried out with the aid of a special tool, called “truffle knife”.