Please note that white truffle season goes from the end of September until January while in the rest of the year only black truffles or other less precious types of truffles might be found.
The tour takes place in a real wood located about 25-minute drive from the city centre of Alba. Trekking boots and appropriate wear is required as well as the capacity to walk on steep, slippery and uneven paths. A limited number of rubber boots are available, please request one at time of booking.
Join a truffle hunting in the woods with the hunter and his dog, followed by a food tasting which includes a selection of truffle products such as spreads on bruschetta, truffle oil and honey, salami, cheese, breadsticks, wine and other local specialties. This is not a lunch but a generous food tasting which will satisfy your mid-morning or mid-afternoon appetite.
The truffle hunting is an informative and fun experience whose aim is to see how truffles are found by the
friendly dog, that is free to browse around without leash, and how the hunter provides directions to the animal suggesting trees or ditches that he knows to be good for truffles.
Nonetheless, our guests get involved in the process by helping the hunter during the extraction process and they witness the close relationship between the man and the dog, by far the highlight of this experience.
On top of that, the truffle hunting is a real “guided tour” in the woods, where guests get a complete presentation on the environment needed for truffles to grow, explanation about types of trees involved, soil characteristics and stories of the hunter’s family. All aspects of truffles’ biological life cycle are touched, as well as culinary uses and how to recognize a good truffle from an average one.