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Truffle hunting Alba tour

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Trufflehuntingalba.com is one of the best Langhe websites to Book Wine Tours, truffle hunting, cooking lessons, exclusive adventures and activities in the Piedmont Region. Discover with us (a small tour operator), over 95 itineraries on food and wine. Our Photos, Videos and Maps are real. Our Local guides and truffle hunters are 24/7 free to offer you live support. Check our verified reviews, on Google, Facebook and Tripadvisor. Skip the Ticket line and book online cellar tours with a Low Price Guaranteed. 100,000+ Things to Do.

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About Truffle hunter Tours

Truffle hunting Alba tours was founded in 2016,  because of the production and passion for wine. We are in love with the products that the Piedmont region offers us. Our Local Guides and Adventure Travel & Private Langhe Tours are well organized by experts and people born and bred in Asti, Alba, Barolo, Barbaresco, Neive and Serra Lunga D’Alba. Our guides will advise you on the best truffle seasons and how to find and buy white and black truffles. They will also be able to explain to you what truffles are, how to eat them and with which wines to pair them.

  • Truffle hunting
  • Where to find truffles
  • Buy truffle
  • Truffle cost
  • Taste truffle
  • Get truffle oil
  • Food and wine tasting
  • Try truffle pasta

Our Services

Our aim is that you make the most of  your trip to Italy and even more of Piedmont, mother earth of the best Italian wines, home of truffles, the Palio of Asti and much more. We advise you to book your Langhe truffle tours or Langhe Wine Tours during your holidays in the Piedmont Region. Don’t lose out on the possibility to discover the heart of the Langhe region, know where to find truffles, how much they cost and why they are so expensive.

Truffles are Tuber, mycorrhizal mushrooms, that are created by binding in symbiosis with roots of certain plants and trees. In fact, the soils rich in truffles, are calcareous soils, poor-humus and with certain trees nearby such as the Oak, Hazel, Willow or the Holm Oak.

During the month of September, the harvest begins and a new truffle season begins, do not miss a unique experience, discover how to book a tour and how to spend your holidays in Italy.

Black truffles

Balck truffle from Alba, Italy

There are different varieties of black truffles.   Depending on the season you can find the precious black truffle (1 December -15 March), black summer truffle (1 June – 31 August), black truffle (October 1 – December 31) and the black winter truffle (1 January – 15 March).

White truffles

White truffle from Alba, Italy

Alba is one of the richest areas for white truffles, not to mention the hills of Asti and the Langhe. We find the white truffles, like the black ones, under the ground, up to a depth of one meter, near trees like Poplars and Lilies, from September to February.