French Oak Wine Barrel Smoking Wood Chunks - unique savoury flavour

Add the unique savoury flavour of Wine infused French Oak into your Braai
French Oak has a tight-grained wood structure, which imparts subtler tastes like aromatic spices, cedar, cashew nut and cocoa notes. The oak profile has a medium smoky flavour that is stronger than apple and cherry, but lighter than mesquite. It's great by itself, but also works well blended with apple or cherry. Oak works well with just about any meat and that's why it's the most versatile wood smoke.

Our tradition of Braaiing is as much about being together with family and good friends as it is about eating fantastic food. Part of what gives your braai its wonderful taste is the type of wood used to prepare it. Add the unique savoury flavour of Wine infused French Oak into your Braai.

For winemaking the age of a barrel is limited from three to five uses. Used wine barrels are among other things repurposed for liquor aging. Master Distillers experiment with different wine barrels to impart the unique flavouring of the soaked oak into their liquors.
In a similar way to the Whiskey & Brandy producers, repurposing French Oak Wine Barrels into smoking wood chunks allows you to impart this unique savoury flavour of wine infused French Oak into your braaiing, grilling or smoking.

How many wood chunks do you add to your fire? 1 - 4. Consider this, Toast in a barrel refers to the char the barrel makers add to the inside with an open flame. This toast can be light, medium, medium-plus, and heavy. Light and medium toast offer a gentle oak aroma and nuanced notes of some grape varietals like Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. Medium-plus and heavy toast are often used for more hearty, robust grape varietals like Cabernet Sauvignon and some Brandys and Whiskeys for a smoky flavour profile.

What's in the box
21 Wood Pieces (Approximately 2.2kg)