Norcia Black Winter Truffle – Tartufo Nero Pregiato di Norcia e Spoleto – Tuber Melanosporum Vittadini

Norcia Black Winter Truffle – Tartufo Nero Pregiato di Norcia e Spoleto – Tuber Melanosporum Vittadini

Tuber Melanosporum Vittadini

Harvesting period: available only from December to March

It’s the most important and tasty black truffle.

In Italy is called Tartufo nero pregiato di Norcia e Spoleto (two historci Umbrian towns); in France is called Truffe du Perigord.

It has perideum globose in loose soils or irregular in stony soils, blackish-brown, initially reddish, warted; the gleba is greyish at first becoming purplish-black at maturity, marbled whit white veins.