Spanish Black Truffle, From Tree to Table
Spanish black truffle is Tuber melanosporum, the same species sold across Europe as Périgord truffle. This site covers both ends of its chain: the fresh black truffle that reaches a kitchen, and the inoculated tree a plantation starts from. Everything on it comes from Teruel, direct from the grower.
Origin: Teruel, Spain · Direct from the grower · Trade enquiries welcome
- Origin: Teruel, Spain
- The cold travels inside the box
- Direct from the grower
What Spanish black truffle is
Spanish black truffle is the winter species, Tuber melanosporum: a fungus that grows underground on the roots of a host tree and is lifted with a trained dog.
It is graded by shape and by the state of the skin, not by aroma. A piece that will be grated into a sauce therefore costs less than one that will be shown whole at a table, and tastes the same.
This site follows the chain end to end: fresh pieces by grade, what a kilo costs, the formats that keep all year, and the trees a plantation starts with.
The truffle sold here normally comes from Teruel: from Sarrión and its district, Gúdar-Javalambre. We also have our own truffle plantations in several places, among them the Serranía de Cuenca.
Orders are agreed piece by piece with the people who lift it, which is the part of the chain that usually has a broker standing in it.
Buy Spanish black truffle fresh
Buy Spanish black truffle by the kilo
Black Truffle Wholesale — Direct from the Grower
By the kilo, graded at origin, for restaurants and distributors.
Preserved Black Truffle: Peelings, Pieces & Frozen
Formats that ship as ordinary goods and keep out of season.
Black Truffle Pieces: Aroma Without the Shape
Sound truffle that broke, ready to use — and what off-grade is not.
Grow Spanish black truffle
Truffle Trees for Black Truffle (Tuber melanosporum)
Where the plant comes from and how many a hectare needs.
Inoculated Truffle Trees: How Black Truffle Mycorrhiza Works
The symbiosis between fungus and root, and how it is checked.
Truffle Trees for Sale: Black Truffle Plants from Spain
Sizing and placing an order for a plantation.
Truffle Seedlings for a Black Truffle Plantation
Young plants, and when in the year they go in the ground.
Understand the species before you buy
The season runs from December to April
Fresh black truffle exists for about four months a year, from December to April. Outside that window there is no fresh Tuber melanosporum from Spain, only preserved and frozen formats.
Demand peaks in December and trade buyers move earlier still. For a fixed date, the conversation starts before the season does.