With a tasting
The hunt in the woods, and at the end a tasting of the truffle you have just found, with local produce.
Sarteano (Siena) · Crete Senesi
A morning truffle hunt
Come into the woods with us and the dogs. You do the searching, you dig it up, and then you eat it.
What it's like
What it's actually like
You meet in the morning and walk into a real oak wood — not a marked trail.
The dogs go ahead. One stops, sniffs, digs. Ten centimetres down there’s a truffle nobody would ever see — and you dig it out yourself.
Then you brush it clean, smell it — and taste it.
Two ways to do it
With lunch
The same morning, finishing at the table with a proper lunch.
Message us for the price: it depends on how many of you there are and on the time of year.
Who for
Who it suits
- Families with children — children like the dogs more than the truffles, and that's fine by us
- Couples — a different sort of morning, and you don't need to be a hiker
- Groups of friends — we can organise it, just tell us in advance
- Visitors from abroad — we do this in English all the time
Bring comfortable shoes and clothes that can get muddy. We'll handle everything else.
In the woods
What you see out there
Photographs taken during our own hunts. Click to enlarge.
Where
On our own truffle ground, in Sarteano
Province of Siena, inside the Val d'Orcia. These are the Crete Senesi — the hills where the white truffle grows. We give you the exact meeting point when you book.
For restaurants
We'll bring the woods into your dining room
We put on themed evenings with restaurants. We arrive with an indoor truffle bed and one of our dogs. The dog digs the truffle out in front of your guests, we clean it and talk them through it, and then every dish that leaves the kitchen is paired with one of our products and with truffle that was underground twenty minutes earlier.
People remember it. And the day after, the restaurant still has our jars on the shelf.
Message us and we'll tell you when it's possible
Dates depend on the season and on the weather. The fastest way is to send us a message.