Preserved Teruel black truffle
Rubén Gil in Sarrión · 20 g jar
£21.50
VAT included
In London you can find it in these shops.
Before you order it to your door, see if a shop is near you. They keep it for you and you pick it up when it suits you.
- Colmado Hackney
Chatsworth Road 61, London
Tue to Fri 12:00 to 20:00 · Sat to Sun 11:00 to 17:00
- Despensa Northcote
Northcote Road 74, London
Mon to Fri 10:00 to 19:00 · Sat 10:00 to 17:00
If there is no shop near you, we send it to your door.
Delivery to United Kingdom: £17.10, 4 to 6 days.
Delivery already includes customs and taxes. You pay nothing more when it arrives.
Who makes it
Fermín planted the first truffle oaks at La Carrasca in 1997, on cereal land that no longer paid its way. They took eleven years to give the first truffle. He is seventy-one now and his back will not let him bend down.
Rubén Gil is twenty-seven. As a boy he went out truffle hunting in the hills with his grandfather. He studied in Valencia and came back to Sarrión with a dog, Kira, who can find a truffle twenty metres away. Since 2025 he has run the farm for @seis.
Around 80% of the world's black truffles come from the province of Teruel, and Sarrión supplies 80% of those. Almost all of them go to France by lorry and come back under another name. Rubén wants this one to reach your table saying where it is from.
How it is made
01
Holm oaks are planted with inoculated roots and take about ten years to give truffles.
02
From December to March, Kira marks the truffle and Rubén digs it out with a short machete.
03
The truffles are brushed dry and sorted by size the same afternoon.
04
They are sterilised whole in the jar, in their own juice with a pinch of salt.
Matarraña and Teruel
Sarrión sits between Gúdar and Javalambre, at almost a thousand metres, with frosty winters and dry summers. The truffle oaks stand in long rows where wheat used to grow.
What we are allowed to say
The smell of black truffle comes from volatile sulphur compounds such as dimethyl sulphide. That is why it comes through more with heat and fat: eggs, potatoes or a rice dish.
What they do so it lasts
- 01The oaks were planted on cereal fields that had been abandoned.
- 02No weedkiller goes between the rows: the strimmer goes through twice a year.
- 03The irrigation pond fills with the rain that runs off the storehouse roof.
Where your money goes
- Rubén Gil
- £10.00
- 51%
- Transport
- £1.00
- 5%
- @seis
- £3.10
- 16%
- The shop or home delivery
- £5.50
- 28%
Out of £19.50, the price before VAT. The VAT, £2.00, goes to the state.
What the label says
- Format
- 20 g jar
- Ingredients
- Black truffle (Tuber melanosporum), water and salt.
- Allergens
- No allergens that need declaring.
- Storage
- Unopened, in the cupboard. Once open, in the fridge and within a week.
- Best before
- 36 months from packing.
- Seal
- No seal
- Made in
- Sarrión, Matarraña and Teruel
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