$210,000 White Truffle

Truffle lovers worldwide put in bids for a 750-gram white truffle from Alba in Italy.

whitetruffle $210,000 White Truffle picture

Bids came in from New York and Berlin but it was a $210,000 bid from Hong Kong that won the auction.

The Italian truffle market has been more expensive lately after having a dry summer.

Sunday’s truffle auction raised a total of $535,000.

Back in November of 2006 another white truffle was purchased by a Hong Kong resident for $160,000. I guess they really love truffles in Asia.

By Sirius on 12-11-2007

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Comments (5)

  1. Comment by pate de fois gras

    November 12th, 2007 at 2:11 pm

    I read that once a group of wealthy people, including several Hollywood stars, pooled their money to buy a truffle for $250,000. Unfortunately, the truffle went bad before they could decide exactly how to eat it!

  2. Comment by darkwing duck

    November 12th, 2007 at 6:13 pm

    that a lot of money for a truffle.

    dam i have lot of truffle in my backyard i wonder how it will go for?

  3. Comment by Zola

    November 14th, 2007 at 3:46 am

    Three Cheers for Hong Kong for setting a record in this unusual category.

  4. Comment by jux

    May 17th, 2008 at 6:31 pm

    I thought this was one ugly piece of white chocolate truffle fetching 210k. But then i wiki-ed truffle and found out its a fungi.

    Thank goodness for wikipedia.

  5. Comment by sdf

    August 25th, 2009 at 11:46 am

    For a billionaire, Stanley Ho sure does spend his money on useful things…

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