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.
