During the Winter truffle season (which varies from year to year but for us generally falls between May and August) we harvest truffles every weekend with our specially trained truffle dogs who sniff out and dig up our whiffy little friends. The excitement that builds inside you hearing the dogs barking and indicating on a spot on the ground, then smelling the powerful aroma and slowly unearthing these nuggety little balls is thrilling!

We have a brand new, amazing venue at the Truffle Orchard in Riwaka, which can be used for special events that you may wish to host. The kitchen has been set up to face the dining area which is in the centre of a large open space (6m wide and 16m long) with fabulous views. The kitchen has a commercial bent to it with two gas ovens and large gas hob and good refrigeration capacity. It can easily seat 50 for a food event. Get in touch with any ideas on how you could use such a weekend or weekday opportunity at the truffière.

During the Winter truffle season (which varies from year to year but for us generally falls between May and August) we harvest truffles every weekend with our specially trained truffle dogs who sniff out and dig up our whiffy little friends. The excitement that builds inside you hearing the dogs barking and indicating on a spot on the ground, then smelling the powerful aroma and slowly unearthing these nuggety little balls is thrilling!

We have a brand new, amazing venue at the Truffle Orchard in Riwaka, which can be used for special events that you may wish to host. The kitchen has been set up to face the dining area which is in the centre of a large open space (6m wide and 16m long) with fabulous views. The kitchen has a commercial bent to it with two gas ovens and large gas hob and good refrigeration capacity. It can easily seat 50 for a food event. Get in touch with any ideas on how you could use such a weekend or weekday opportunity at the truffière.

At George’s Truffles we have an innate passion and love for all things truffle; eating truffles, smelling truffles, talking endlessly about truffles and most importantly…the love for the beautiful land that grows our truffle trees. It is this (sometimes obsessive!) love that drives our commitment to introduce more New Zealanders to this true delicacy via some excellent restaurant, hospitality providers and now to the home kitchen. 

Our truffle farm, or truffière, has a mix of 2,200 inoculated Oak and Hazel trees that were planted between 2009 and 2010. We have been successfully producing and finding truffles since 2016. That may not sound like a long time, but we’ve sure hit the ground running!

There are many, many varieties of truffle that grow around the world - both naturally in the wild, and cultivated in truffières such as ours. One of the most commercially sought after and popular varieties is the Black Périgord - the truffle that we grow - which originates from the northern European basin of France, Italy, Spain and Croatia. 

Truffles grow underground on the roots of certain trees in a symbiotic relationship. They have a very powerful, almost pungent aroma which makes them a delightfully unique delicacy. This aroma is by clever design so that in the wild, animals (including pigs) will find them, dig them up, eat them, and excrete their spores back into the ground - thus completing their beautiful circle of life!