Did you know?
As it is mentioned in other sections of Truffes.com, the most expensive and highest in demand truffles are the Périgord Black Truffle or Black Diamond
—the species which truffes.com is devoted to—, and the Piedmont White Winter Truffle. An overview on the characteristics of white truffles is included below.
For a complete set of information on the Périgord Black visit: The Black Diamond.
I left France 15 years ago for the Silicon Valley.Let me state it clearly, it's not for culinary reasons that I moved ...
Food is so important to us French people!
I miss so much the taste of those black truffles we grow at home!
Hmmmmmm, that truffle omelette with a good bottle of Château Gruaud-Larose (it's a Bordeaux "Grand Cru"). Felt like home!!! Thank you wwww.truffes.com , thank you so much.
Count on it, I'll be back soon!
— Jacques, Palo Alto, CA
invited to one of those classy Saturday night Beacon Hill's dinners; everyone would come with their usual flowers.
We brought a 0.45 Oz jar of winter black truffles.
Next day hostess texts me: "Thank you for the truffles, the most elegant dinner present I've ever been offered!"
Ben L., Weston, MA 02493
— Ben L., Weston, MA 02493
Indubitablement, les meilleures truffes noires viennent de France, où la truffe noire d’hiver est plus communément appelée le Diamant du Périgord. Cet exquis champignon tuber melanosporum pousse dans le Sud, de décembre à mars. Pendant cette saison, les marchés aux truffes regorgent de ce délicieux tuber, noir, avec un intérieur sombre et marbré, caractérisé par son goût authentique et chocolaté. La truffe noire d’été, tuber aestivum vitt ou « truffe de la St Jean »
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