Truffle - Beppino Occelli

The truffle is a fungus of the Tubers family and grows under the ground, especially near oak and holm-oak roots with which establishes a symbiotic relationship being in fact a mycorrhiza. The truffle has a typical intense and penetrating scent , very valuable for an infinite variety of traditional Italian and internatinal dishes. This scent only develops when truffles are ripe and allows it to be identified by the wild animals so spread the spores and then reproducing. The famous Italian regions for the production of truffles are definitely the Piedmont where is the white truffle, some areas in the south of Lombardy, but in particular in the center of the Italian Apennines of Umbria, Marche and Molise overall are a perfect habitat for the development of truffle especially the black winter truffle. Please find below our best prices and deals for italian truffle products.