Description
Pre-order by Monday, Available for pickup on Wednesday (Campbell) or Friday (San Mateo)
Black Summer Truffles Season: from April-May to August
The Tuber Aestivum Vitt is widely known as 'Scorzone' in Italian, a Black Summer Truffle that is one of the less precious truffles. These black tubers are milder than their winter cousins making them perfect for adding an exquisite touch to many summer dishes.
The taste and aroma of the summer truffle offer delicate notes, perfectly suited to summer cuisine. Firm and crisp, it graces every table as soon as the warmer weather arrives, and can be grated over a salad, burrata, fish carpaccio, or on toast as an appetizer, with a drizzle of olive oil.
Their gleba is hazel and more or less yellowish in ripe truffles, and often even lighter, and it has many whitish veins of varying thickness, ramified and joined together. The rugged surface is completely covered in pyramidal warts.
The fresh summer truffle (Tuber aestivum), often mistakenly called "white summer truffle" because of its white flesh, is nothing like the true white truffle.
Harvest Regions: Piedmont, Emilia Romagna, Marche, Umbria, Lazio, Abruzzo, Campania, Molise
Symbiotics plants: generally Turkey oak, downy oak, common hazel, black and white hornbeam, English oak, oak, beech, black pine, poplar