Ethics, high standards and know-how since 2003
Truffles : a passion to share ... The authenticity
The Truffle, The Truffles
Founded in 2003, LC TRUFFES is the expertise and know-how of truffles in the service of gastronomy.
For two decades, Lc Truffes has built a solid national and international reputation with great chefs, craftsmen and industrialists in search of taste and authenticity.
A reference in the world of truffles, embodied by a passionate woman, Christine Laroussi, anchored in her values: the Requirement, the Rigor, the Transparency, the Ethics, the Quality of the service where each customer is unique.
Committed to a perpetual search for Excellence, Traceability and the Best of the Season (compensating for seasonal variations) to bring you the quintessence of each variety of truffles; LC TRUFFES surrounds itself with producers, brokers, partners covering a vast truffle territory (France, Italy, Spain, Australia) in which each selected region has its own terroir and its particularities in order to satisfy you in regularity.
LC TRUFFLES offers you a selection of the best fresh and preserved truffles:
Tuber Melanosporum Black Truffle of Perigord, Tuber Magnatum White Truffle of Alba, Tuber Uncinatum Truffle of Burgundy, Tuber Aestivum White Summer Truffle.
The truffle
Our business
Fresh truffles of quality from the best truffle-growing areas in France or elsewhere, depending on the variety and seasonality. A regularity of the best of the moment in spite of very complicated seasons.
Sharing its know-how, a work of goldsmith every day.
A philosophy: an authenticity since its creation.
We offer it fresh, frozen and preserved according to the species, in order to meet all the expectations of our customers whether they are gastronomic tables, caterers, cheese makers, semi-industrialists, all looking for the best of it.
THE TRUFFLE, a pure product of the earth.
Each Truffle is UNIQUE, no two are alike.
The seasons of fresh truffles
- BLACK TRUFFLE : Tuber Melanosporum from mid-November to the end of March
- BLACK TRUFFLE : Tuber Melanosporum (Australia) from the beginning of June to the end of August
- ALBA WHITE TRUFFLE : Tuber Magnatum from mid-September to the end of January
- BURGUNDY TRUFFLE : Tuber Uncinatum from mid-September to mid-January
- SUMMER WHITE TRUFFLE : Tuber Aestivum from the beginning of May to the end of September
No two seasons are alike...
Climate change or/and other parameters make our reference points change.
Will the quantities be present ? good or bad year ? What will be its quality? Will the weekly courses (Black Truffle and White Truffle of Alba) be in adequacy with the truffles of the moment?
So many questions before each season and during this one.
Will I have again in my hands this truffle which transcends me by its perfume, its subtle aromas, their difference, both true sanctuary of mystery, I speak indeed about the two most prestigious!
Varieties of fresh truffles
Tuber Magnatum
Correspondence White Truffle of Alba or White Truffle of Piemont.
Tuber Melanosporum
known as Black Truffle, Black Truffle of Périgord or Truffle of Périgord.
Tuber Uncinatum
Burgundy Truffle , Autumn Truffle
Tuber Aestivum
White summer truffle , St John's day truffle , Summer truffle
A hypogeous mushroom with many facets
180 species of truffles are listed in the world. Not all of them are edible and those that are are not all interesting in terms of smell, taste and market value even though they are black or white.
Thus a white summer truffle or Burgundy truffle is not a black truffle and a bianchetto or terfes is not a white Alba truffle either.
In order to differentiate them, each one of them having its specificities and characteristics (peridium, gleba, taste, perfume...) they were given a scientific name Tuber (Latin name) followed by the name of the species as well as the usual name.
About ten truffles are marketed, not all of them are mentioned above, with a well-defined harvesting period: prefectoral decrees. It should be noted that the Italian Carabinieri, especially with regard to the Tuber Magnatum, are very strict about the period of cavage of this one, each region of Italy has an opening date, not respecting this one is to incur strong fines.
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