wood chips vs wood chunks

I'm curious to see what others think about "shelf life" of smoke wood, and if there is variation in smoke wood quality. Last weekend I smoked some baby backs and used what I admit was a pretty old bag of cherry wood chunks. While the ribs turned out OK, they didn't have much smoke flavor...

Hello Just reicived a new weber smokey mountain for my birthday. My first cook will be on easter sunday. I will smoke å pork neck(we do not have porksholder cuts in Norway) and som ribs. Hopefylly i will get the temp control rigth. The problem is that they only sell wood chips in Norway and not...