Truffle Hunting in ITALY!
My wife and I recently went on our Honeymoon in Italy. We traveled all over Tuscany during the first half of our trip, and this experience was definitely one of the highlights.
After driving through the fog to the top of a hill just south of San Miniato, we arrived at Fattoria Collebrunacchi, where Francesca and her dog Chocco taught us how to hunt for truffles. Afterwards, she and her mom made lunch using the freshly caught truffles and served it with wine and olive oil they produce on site. It was an incredible experience.
If you're interested in going Truffle Hunting during your visit to Italy, here's where you can book the tour:
This is not an ad. My wife and I just really loved our experience and wanted to share.
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My name is Massimo and I am a truffle hunter; I was born in 1974 in San Miniato, a small medieval town located in the heart of Tuscany and deservedly listed as one of the undisputed capitals of the White Truffle (Tuer Magnatum Pico). My grandfather, Lino, called “I’ Mencacci”, gave me the love for nature and an intense passion towards this diamond of the land so sought-after and coveted by gourmets from all over the world. It was him, one of the first truffle hunters with capital “T”, to tell me legends, anecdotes, stories about truffle and truffle hunters and now I feel I have to share such a treasure with those who want to discover a tradition otherwise just reserved for few connoisseurs.
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Tuscany Truffle Hunting & Chianti Wine Tour from Florence
This is a shared tour that departs every day from Florence to explore the famous truffle region of San Miniato. You will meet Francesca and her family in a typical Tuscan farm that is set 10 min away from San Miniato.
Tour departs in the morning from Florence at 9:45 am and the meeting point is set in Piazza Cavalleggeri. We will be driving towards San Miniato and the ride will take just 1 hr.
The experience takes place in a forest just 10 min walk from Francesca's farm, this is a private property known for the abundance of truffles and between October and November is an excellent spot to find white precious truffles.
The hike is open to everyone but we discourage people that have bad mobility and since this a food and wine experience open to small groups only, we accept only people with a minimum of 18 yrs old.
The lunch takes place in Francesca's family villa and food is homemade prepared with the freshly found truffles, also the wine comes from Francesca's winery.
After this great lunch, we will be ready to drive toward the Chianti Classico wine region to stop in a very special winery to have a wine tasting of Tuscan wines.
The ride tp the winery is about 40 min long and the winery is set in a renaissance setting that was home of Medici family in the XV century.
You will be exploring the cellar with a knowledge English guide provided by the winery itself and eventually, you will have a guided wine tasting with one of ITALY AND WINE wine experts.
At about 4 pm we will be all ready to go back to Florence where we will be arriving by 4:45 p.m.
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Associazione Tartufai delle Colline Sanminiatesi, Chef e Vignaioli di San Miniato assieme per una lezione di enogastronomia indirizzata agli studenti delle scuole alberghiere della Toscana. Lezione tenuta da Ernesto Gentili, giornalista e curatore di Vini d'Italia dell'Espresso e dai nostri Chef Gilberto Rossi, Daniele Fagiolini, Stefano Pinciaroli e Paolo Fiaschi. Grazie a tutti per l'ottimo risultato raggiunto.
Wine and Truffle Experience in Tuscany
If you like truffles and you want to find a good complement with this particular food delicacy, I recommend this special experience. The tour starts from Florence and will bring you to San Miniato one of the most famous region in the world for truffle. A truffle hunter and his dogs will take you to a walk through the woods finding truffles. The tour will end in a small winery, here you will have the chance to combine fresh truffles and wine.
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Tuscan Truffle Hunting Tour in San Miniato details:
- The pickup time was at 10 am in front of the National Library which was an easy 15 min walk from our AirBNB.
- I booked the excursion online. The excursion costs 350 euros for two people.
- Came with a 3 course lunch with truffles and wine tasting
- If you have a car and just want to join the truffle hunting, you can do that. There was a couple in our tour that drove here themselves. They said they found them online and booked it on their own. - I also read that leaving from the San Miniato train station takes about a 15 minute taxi ride that costs €25 each way. It takes about 30 minutes to take the train from Florence.
- DO BORROW their boots because the forest is often muddy.
- October and November has the best climate for truffle hunting. Although I'm here in October, today wasn't the best climate for truffle hunting because it wasn't cold and wet enough.
Truffle Hunting Dog Details!
In Italy, the use of pigs has been prohibited since 1985. The pigs dig into the ground looking for truffles and harms the entire truffle ecosystem in the process. With dogs, they can smell the truffle and alert their owners. The owner then carefully digs up the truffle and then closes the hole back up for future truffles to grow back. Dogs like Choco cost up to $10,000 US!
Next stop: wine tasting!
This winery started in 1535. They not only produce wines - they also produce olives. They breed Cinta Senese to produce salami and prosciutto. Cinta Senese is a breed of Italian pig from the province of Siena, in Tuscany. They also produce honey and produce and everything is organic!
The big barrels can be reused for 15 to 16 years. These barrels are huge! The big barrow gives the wine a freshness and fruitier taste. The small barrels are only used for 3 years. After 3 years the barrel absorbs too much wine to be reused.
The green glass on top of the barrel allows the gas created by fermentation to escape while not allowing air back in. This cool contraption was invented by Leonardo Da Vinci.
After the tour we got to taste their wines along with some salami and prosciutto. They add fennel seeds into the salami. It was very good!
Why does Florence, Italy bread have no salt?
The bread made in this region of Italy has no salt added. I didn't know that as it was my first time trying saltless bread. I'll have to admit I like my bread with some sodium. Bread from Tuscany and Florentine and maybe some other places near by don't add salt to their bread. There are many reasons for this: I don't know which one is true. But here goes: salt used to be heavily taxed so to save some money they stopped adding salt to their bread. Another reason is during war between Pisa and Florence the Pisan army set up a blockade on the Arno River to prevent salt shipments from reaching Florence. Without salt, bakers just continued baking their bread without the salt. Last reason is Tuscan cuisine tend to be on the saltier side so the bread is to help eat the salty food.
Final STOP: Plaza Michelangelo. He was willing to drop us off there instead so we can catch the sunset.
It was nice because this place was on my list to visit and it saved me a hike up the hill to get there.
The view up here is amazing! You can see the entire city of Florence from here. It was a bit cloudy to see the sunset, but it was still very nice.
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Small Group Truffle Hunting and Wine Experience from Florence
While in Florence, experience truffle hunting and wine tasting with a small group tour.
Get to the heart of Italy's finest foods on this 6-hour gourmet adventure from Florence. Begin with a short drive to the Tuscan countryside, where you'll join a truffle hunter and his dog to sniff out these prized gems. After finding them in the wild, sit down to a truffle-filled lunch at a nearby villa. Then top off your day at a local winery, where you'll taste Chianti and learn how it's made.
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Certaldo - Tuscany - I Like Italy
Certaldo is not far from Florence, in the middle of the valley of the Elsa river. Certaldo is the home town of Boccaccio, one of the greatest italian writer ever.
Certaldo means history, tradition and art, and it's a mandatory step for all the visitors of Tuscany.
Certaldo was founded in 1164, with the building of the old castle, when Federico Barbarossa gave the territory to the family of Conti Alberti. In XIII century Certaldo was conquered from Florence and from that century the history of Certaldo became strongly related to the Florence history.
The old castle is seat in the high part of the town, and nowadays it still preserves the medieval structures of the streets and buildings.
One of the main buildings is the Palazzo Pretorio, the symbol of Certaldo. It is the rest of the ancient castle of the Conti Alberti. Nowadays it's the seat of a gallery of modern art.
Close to the Palace there is the Church of Santi Jacopo e Filippo, in a perfect romanesque-style. It was builded in XIII century and nowadays it host the museum of Holy Art. Inside the old church there are the remains of Boccaccio.
The main street of the old town is Via Boccaccio, where we can find the house of the writer, completely re-builded after the second world war, and nowadays it's the seat of an important Library dedicated to Boccaccio.
In the old town there is also the palace Stiozzi Ridolfi, it was builded in XIV century. It is completely inside the old castle, with two towers and a big court.
Three gates still assure the access to the old castle: Porta al Sole, Porta Alberti and Porta del Rivellino.
The whole area of Certaldo is covered by history. In fact there are several outstanding buildings just outside the town, like the ruins of the Castle of Pogni.
The Castle of Pogni was one of the most powerful outpost of the Alberti dinasty. Now we can admire only a broken tower and some ruins of the old palace.
The Church of San Lazzaro a Lucardo was builded in X century. It's a classic example of romanesque-style church, with three naves and a basilica-like base. Maybe the most important romanesque-style building of the whole valley.
The Chapel of San Michele Arcangelo is close to Certaldo and it was builded in 1597, by Santi Tito. It's a perfect scale down (1:8) of the Florence Dome and nowadays it's the only remains of the old town of Semifonte.
The main yearly event of Certaldo is Mercantia, in july. A festival of street theatre and local craftsmanship. It's a very famous event, where it's possible to merge music, dance, theatre and cfraftsmanship, framed by the medieval old town.
Street artists from all the world are guests of the city for five days and the event involves hundreds of thousands of visitors every year.
For our journeys of the taste we'd like to underline one of the most famous high-quality product of Certaldo, the Bianchetto (little white) truffle.
The gathering of this kind of truffle is usually in march (for this reason it's called Marzoulo too)
This kind of truffle is not estemeed as the white truffle of San Miniato, gathered in november.
The size of the Marzuolo is usually smaller, with a strong good smell. It's a good ingredient for Tuscan recipes, because it's tasty but cheaper then the San Miniato's truffle.
Hunting White Truffle in Tuscany