Over the weekend, a 4.16 pound white truffle—the so-called “World’s Largest”—sold at a Sotheby’s auction for $61,250 to a phone bidder in China. It was actually a bargain price for the over-sized fungus. This year’s large crop, a result of abundant rain in Italy, has seen wholesale prices drop by 50 percent Continue Reading
TRUFFLELAND WAS BORN IN 2017 OUT OF PURE PASSION In order to come back to men’s first noble job: agriculture. It is a large nursery located in Scheggino, Umbria: it produces mycorrhized plants for truffle cultivation with a revolutionary method. New truffle plants that grow among endless natural truffieres that Continue Reading
9 SUBSIDIARIES WORLDWIDE, 5 BRANDS, 300 PROFESSIONALS, 70% GLOBAL MARKET SHARE: THESE ARE THE NUMBERS OF URBANI TRUFFLES. The company’s headquarters are located in Sant’Anatolia di Narco, in the province of Perugia, Italy, where Urbani Tartufi was born. 150 employees work there using innovative technologies to process and preserve truffles Continue Reading
