**Langhe Tuffle** 

**Tradition, passion, synergy with the territory**

To understand the true essence of Langhe Truffle, we must first place it in the Langhe,the region that hosts usand makes our work possible.

Nature here seems to have been drawn by a skilled painter: the vineyards and hazelnut groves alternate, giving life to a one-of-a-kind atmosphere . Luckily for us, it is precisely in this atmosphere that the best quality truffles in the world are born.

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There's a reason truffle hunters have always worked in secret. The best patches are family knowledge, passed down and never written anywhere. For ninety minutes, Massimiliano Bertello lets you in on it.

Massimiliano is a trifulau, a traditional Piedmontese truffle hunter, and he's been doing this for 40 years. His grandfather Michele taught his father Pierino, who taught him, and today he searches these same hills with his dog Kelly at his side. You'll walk out together into the woods, real truffle ground, not a show staged for tourists.

So why let outsiders in on something this secret? Because the only way to really understand what makes these truffles special is to see the work up close, and because some secrets are worth sharing, even if not all of them.

What you're watching is a partnership built over years: the quiet commands in Piedmontese dialect, the pause, the moment Kelly's nose locks onto something and she starts to dig. Massimiliano explains it all as you go, how the Alba white truffle grows, why the location matters so much, what separates a good trifulau from a lucky one. A few truffles are placed in advance so you're guaranteed to see the whole process, but because you're on genuine truffle ground, it's entirely possible Kelly finds one that grew there on her own.

At the end of the walk, you can buy what's been found and take it home, the most direct souvenir there is. 

Truffle Search in the Langhe 

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Same woods, same trifulau, same dog, none of the company. The standalone search is already a small-group experience, but it's still shared with whichever other guests booked that slot. If you'd rather have Massimiliano and Kelly entirely to yourselves, this is that version. 

Nothing about the walk itself changes: the same route through the Langhe hills, the same explanation of how a trifulau reads the ground and works with his dog, the same chance to watch Kelly lock onto a scent and start digging, and the same opportunity to buy what she finds at the end. What changes is the pace of it. Without another group's schedule to fold into, there's more room to slow down, ask more questions, or bring young children along without worrying about holding up a bigger group.

It's a small supplement on top of the same ticket prices as the group search, and it comes with a practical side effect: booking the private version blocks that time slot for the group search too, and vice versa, since Massimiliano and Kelly can only be in one place at a time.

Private Truffle Search  

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The full Langhe Truffle day starts exactly the way the standalone search does: ninety minutes in the woods with Massimiliano and his dog Kelly, learning to read the ground the way a trifulau does, watching for the pause before Kelly starts to dig. If you've got the time, this is the version built to stretch that morning into something longer. 

Once the search wraps up, you head to the family's home along the road that runs from Barbaresco towards Pertinace, where a terrace looking out over the hills has been set up for exactly this kind of lunch. It's not a restaurant, there's no menu to choose from and no other tables, just the Bertello family's own space, repurposed for the day.

What arrives at the table tells the story of the region as much as the truffle does. A mixed Piedmontese appetizer to start, alongside the truffle-based products the family also sells, jams and honey built around the same ingredient you just watched Kelly find. Then raw meat, grated tableside with black truffle (white truffle can be added on request, at extra cost, depending on the season). A cheese course follows: typical Langhe cheeses like toma, montecenere and castelmagno, paired with a fig-and-Barolo jam, a Muscat-and-pear conserve, and an onion confit to cut through the richness. Dessert is the region's own hazelnut cake. Wine and water run throughout, with a glass of Barbaresco DOCG and one of Dolcetto d'Alba DOC poured to match the food.

None of it is plated for show. It's the meal Massimiliano's own family would put together for people they wanted to properly feed, six courses because that's what it takes to do the truffle justice, not because anyone's counting.

Between the walk in the woods and everything that follows at the table, plan on the better part of a morning, roughly three hours start to finish. It's the version of the experience for anyone who came to the Langhe to slow down, not just to check a box.

Truffle Search & Traditional Tasting 

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Most people meet a trifulau mid-morning, once the sun's been up for hours and the woods are already busy. This version starts before any of that, because it's closer to how Massimiliano actually works: plenty of his real searches happen at night or at first light, partly because his dog Kelly is less distracted at that hour, partly because truffles surface more easily once the morning dew has settled into the ground.

You'll meet him at 7:30, while Barbaresco is still quiet, and follow the same walk through the hills that the standalone search offers, the same technique, the same partnership between hunter and dog, just with the light coming in low and the woods mostly to yourselves. 

By the time you're back, breakfast is waiting: a soft-boiled egg with fresh truffle grated over it, and a glass of wine alongside. It's a smaller gesture than the full tasting lunch, closer to what Massimiliano would put together for himself after a morning out, not a production, just the right way to end an early start.

For guests staying nearby, especially at the Langhe Truffle apartments in La Morra, it's a natural way to open the day: search, breakfast, and still most of the morning left to explore the Langhe afterwards.

Truffle Search & Breakfast  

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Some guests don't want research to be just an afternoon detour, they actually prefer to stay in the Langhe to do it. Langhe Truffle has two apartments in La Morra, one of the most popular villages in the area, precisely for this reason. One can accommodate up to six people, the other up to four, so you can wake up in the hills instead of driving somewhere else.

Each apartment is designed as an adequate base, not just a place to sleep: two bedrooms, a living room with a flat-screen TV, a kitchen if you want to cook yourself, a balcony, access to a terrace and private parking on site.

Book your night (or a few) and then decide how to spend your time with Massimiliano: the 90-minute direct search, the search followed by the full lunch with tasting at the farmhouse or the combination of early search and breakfast, whichever fits the rest of your stay. Each one is booked and has a separate price, just as it would be for a guest on a day trip, only easier to adapt when you're already five minutes from the woods.

It ends up being less of a single experience than a small base of operations, in a village that most visitors cross only to go somewhere else.