Black Truffle Price per Kilo

Black truffle price depends on one thing before all others: whether you are buying ten grams or a hundred kilos.

After that it moves with the grade, with the month of the season, and with how much work a piece takes to clean.

This page gives the published ranges and the mechanics behind them, so you can judge a price before you ask for one.

What a kilo has cost this season

There is no fixed list price for fresh black truffle. It moves week to week with the harvest, and a quotation is given against the pieces available, not a catalogue.

For orientation, published retail ranges for Spanish fresh black truffle in the 2025-26 season ran from around 1,500 to 3,000 euros per kilo in December, 1,000 to 2,000 in January and February, and 800 to 1,500 in March.

Ten grams or a hundred kilos

A private customer buying a piece for dinner and a distributor buying by the kilo do not pay the same price per gram. The quantity is the first thing a quotation asks for.

The four things that set a price, and the week that moves it

The grower reduces it to four: the quantity, the quality, the customer and the destination. A quotation is built from those, in that order.

On top of them sits the calendar. During the harvest a weekly price is set against the European markets, the French one above all, and it moves with them. That is the trade price, and it is why a professional buyer is quoted for a week rather than from a list.

A retail order is treated differently on purpose: a fixed price, and direct contact with whoever is buying when the quantity is large enough to matter.

Why one grade costs more than another

The gap between Extra and the lower grades is not flavour. It is labour.

A round, whole piece is cleaned in about two minutes. An irregular one, with soil in its hollows, can take fifteen. In an hour, one person cleans thirty of the first kind and four of the second, and that time is what the price per kilo carries.

• Extra: round, whole, no cosmetic damage. The grade that costs most.
• First and Second: small defects of shape, colour or skin. Less regular, less to pay, and none of it visible in a dish.
• Pieces: the same harvest, broken. The lowest price of the fresh grades.

What a break does to the price

A grower describes it with one example: an Extra piece at a market reference of 1,200 euros per kilo, split in two by the knife while lifting it, drops to 150. One eighth of the price, for the same black truffle.

That is why the dog must not scratch it and the person lifting it must not break it, and why pieces are the sensible buy for anything that will be grated.

How to get a price for a specific order

Send the grade, the approximate weight and the date. You receive the pieces available that week, their real weight and the price for exactly that weight, before paying anything.

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• Buy Black Truffle Direct from the Grower
• Fresh Black Truffle, in Season December to April
• Black Truffle Wholesale — Direct from the Grower
• Black Truffle Pieces: Aroma Without the Shape
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