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.
