Spanish Black Truffle, From Tree to Table
Spanish black truffle is the same species sold across Europe as Périgord truffle: Tuber melanosporum. Spain is the largest producer in the world, and Teruel grows around 80 per cent of it. This site covers the two ends of that chain: the fresh truffle ready for the kitchen and the inoculated tree it starts from.
Origin: Teruel, Spain · Direct from the grower · Trade enquiries welcome
- Origin: Teruel, Spain
- Cold-chain shipping
- Direct from the grower
What Spanish black truffle is
Spain is the largest producer of black truffle in the world, at around 120 tonnes a year against roughly 40 tonnes in France. The province of Teruel alone accounts for about 80 per cent of world production.
Around 90 per cent of that harvest is exported fresh to France, where it is processed and re-sold. The truffle leaves Spain, and most of the value leaves with it.
This site follows the whole chain. Fresh black truffle by grade, what a kilo costs, the formats that keep all year for the trade, and the inoculated trees a plantation is started with.
Buy black truffle
Buy Black Truffle Direct from the Grower
Fresh Tuber melanosporum by grade, weighed piece by piece before you pay.
Fresh Black Truffle, in Season December to April
Whole pieces from the current harvest, only during the four months of the season.
Black Truffle Price per Kilo
Why the price depends on whether you buy ten grams or a hundred kilos.
Buy wholesale
Black Truffle Wholesale — Direct from the Grower
Fresh truffle by the kilo, graded at origin, for restaurants and distributors.
Preserved Black Truffle: Peelings, Pieces & Frozen
The formats that travel without a cold chain and keep out of season.
Black Truffle Pieces: the Same Truffle, Broken
Same aroma as a whole truffle, at a fraction of the price.
Grow 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 the fungus and the root, explained by a grower.
Truffle Trees for Sale: Black Truffle Plants from Spain
Ordering plants for a plantation, and what to check before you do.
Truffle Seedlings for a Black Truffle Plantation
Young inoculated plants and when in the year they go in the ground.
Learn about the black truffle
Tuber Melanosporum: the Black Truffle
How to recognise the species, when it is in season and how it is graded.
Winter Truffle (Tuber Melanosporum)
The black truffle of the December to April season, and how it differs from summer truffle.
Black Truffle Blog: Growing, Farming and Orchards
Timelines, yields and costs of a plantation, from a grower.
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. If you need truffle for a fixed date, the conversation has to start before the season does.