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The Donum Estate & ATC® Announce Partnership
Published On: December 5th, 2023Categories: Truffle NewsThe Donum Estate Ushers in a New Era of US-Grown European Truffles Partnering with the American Truffle Company® Périgord black truffle orchard will be planted at the Sonoma Winery Estate, representing the largest such orchard to be cultivated in the [...]
Boisset Collection & ATC® Announce Partnership
Published On: April 20th, 2022Categories: Truffle NewsDOWNLOADABLE IMAGES Boisset Collection & American Truffle Company® Announce Partnership to Cultivate Périgord Black Truffles at Raymond Vineyards Napa, CA (April 20, 2022) – Boisset Collection, the leading Franco-American, family-owned fine wine company, and the American Truffle Company® (ATC), the [...]
Truffles & sex: what we know & implications for production
Published On: February 10th, 2021Categories: Truffle CultivationWithin truffle cultivation, some basic parameters are understood. For example, it is widely accepted that to cultivate Périgord black truffles (Tuber melanosporum) we need a suitable climate, alkaline soils and host trees whose roots have formed mycorrhizal structures with T. [...]
The Single Biggest Risk in Growing Truffles
Published On: January 26th, 2021Categories: Truffle ScienceThere are many technical considerations in trying to grow truffles. We’ve outlined the Five Steps to Growing Truffles before. However, by far the single biggest risk in growing truffles is not any of these technical considerations. It’s not the trees; [...]
Impacts of Climate Change on Truffle Production
Published On: December 7th, 2020Categories: Climate Change, Truffle Science2020 has been a big news year and life has changed in ways that most of us never expected. At the start of the year, record wildfires seemed like they could be the big news story of the year as [...]
First Burgundy Truffle Harvest In California
Published On: February 25th, 2020Categories: Truffle News
Eureka! A Truffle Revolution Comes to Wine Country
Published On: December 19th, 2019Categories: Truffle News
The American Truffle Revolution Returns to Nantucket
Published On: March 26th, 2019Categories: Events/Activities, Special Interest, Truffle NewsRobert Chang returns to Nantucket for the 22nd annual Nantucket Wine & Food Festival, May 15-19, to present the American Truffle Revolution, an interactive experience that reveals the flavors, gastronomy, history and mystery of black truffles. He’ll also discuss how [...]
Chef Jodie Rubin’s Black Truffle Quiche
Published On: February 19th, 2019Categories: Chefs, For the Home Cook, Recipes/CulinaryOn the chilly mornings of the Napa Truffle Festival’s Wild Mushroom Forays, Chef Jodie Rubin warmed everyone up with her tasty truffle quiche. “It was absolutely yummy,” said one happy forager. “What a way to start a mushroom hunt!” “It’s [...]
Truffle Production in Europe Threatened By Climate Change
Published On: December 7th, 2018Categories: Climate Change, Truffle NewsAs stated in a recent article featured in Wine & Food Magazine: 'A recent study suggests the European truffle industry could be done by 2071 or sooner.' This was based on a paper from Scotland’s University of Stirling entitled "A [...]
Huge Early Harvest for South African Truffle Orchard
Published On: August 9th, 2018Categories: Dog Truffle Hunts, Special Interest, Truffle News, Truffle ScienceThe monster 380g truffle worth around $900 American Truffle Company's chief scientist, Dr. Paul Thomas, recently reported that one of his Southern African truffle orchards has harvested its first truffles. The site, just 5.5 years old, uses a range of [...]
