Makes more sense and why wines naturally taste like vanilla.
Strike my earlier post. I have no intention of putting vanilla in my wines
Oak was used in so many things that using it just to store wine would have been a luxury.
Vanillin is also found in some pine barks.
It is not a real unusual chemical compound in nature. What makes the vanilla bean so unusual is the high amount found in it.
It is sort of like maple sap. All tree sap has sugar in it. The sap from the sugar maple just has more then usual.