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Kevin had recently done a pellet review youtube and it was a good through review, but it didn’t include our pellets. I wrote Kevin and asked him if he’d like to try our pellets this video and comment are the result. It gives me great pleasure to see people enjoying these pellets as much as I do! Try a bag, you won’t be dissappointed.
Thanks to Barbecue news for a great review of our Wine infused Oak bbq pellets. Sounds like they really enjoyed them. Purchase our pellets from a local store in Northern California or from our website.
When barbecuing for family and friends, naturally you want them to have the best. We start with oak from trees grown for oaking wine. Oaks are hardy trees and usually grown in sustainably managed forests. Wine making oak contains no bark. Unlike orchard woods, oak trees are not fertilized or sprayed with pesticides, fungicides and mildewcides to protect a crop.
After juice ferment, wine making oak is added to the tank during the aging process. When the wine is finished, the the oak is removed from the tank, and put into our food grade macro bins. Wine Country BBQ collects these bins and stores the oak in covered stacks for drying. When ready, oak goes into our production line and is made into pellets.
The product never touches the ground during its transformation from oak blocks to pellets. Finally the pellets are measured into heavy duty food grade bags and are sewn closed, ready to ship to you or your local store.
Here in the California Wine Country, using wine making oak for barbecuing is a local tradition. While cooking for our local volunteer fire department at our annual fund raising BBQ, I discovered how good this wine making oak makes food taste. In 2018 we scored a whole pickup load of oak from the winery where my wife works, and cooked the entire BBQ (tri-tip and chicken) over it and people were raving about how good the food was! It’s been the same crowd and same recipe for years, The difference was the oak. This inspired me to make these barbecue pellets to share with the rest of the smoker community.
Thank you for the compliments Mike, glad you’re enjoying our pellets!
When wine is made in stainless steel tanks, oak is added to produce similar flavors to wine aged in barrels. This wine making oak is usually French White Oak that is carefully toasted. The degree of toasting is carefully controlled to impart different flavors to the wine. Wine making oak is immersed in wine for months, deeply infusing each piece. And because it is toasted, it rapidly soaks up the wine.
Barbecue pellets made from wine making oak benefit from being toasted. Toasting removes harsh volatile compounds that can give smoked foods an acrid flavor. Each piece of oak is fully toasted unlike a barrel which is only toasted on the inside. Oak being a neutral flavored hardwood and having a high BTU content is an excellent wood to barbecue with. Not only is each piece deeply saturated, but the pink color seen above are wine lees that are packed with flavor. Wine making oak, and only wine making oak, goes into every wine infused oak barbecue pellet we make.
We hope that you enjoy the food cooked with these pellets as much as we do.
Tee Shirt
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Wine Infused Oak BBQ Pellets 20lb.
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