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.
