1968 | Moulin Touchais | Coteaux du Layon

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Sweet Wine: 1968 | Moulin Touchais | Coteaux du Layon

1968 is a complex mature wine with aromas of candied grapefruit, quince preserve and honey. On the palate, it is slightly waxy in texture with added flavours of cinnamon and mint.

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Producer: Moulin Touchais

Ratings: V | 92 GS | 93

Vintage: 1968

Size: 750ml

ABV: 13.5%

Varietal: Sauvignon Blanc

Country/Region: France, Loire

1968 is a complex mature wine with aromas of candied grapefruit, quince preserve and honey. On the palate, it is slightly waxy in texture with added flavours of cinnamon and mint.

Reviews:

• Vinous: The people at Moulin Touchais call 1968 a ‘petit millsime’ i.e. it was cool and wet so not particularly conducive to quality. The vintage was first released in 2018, 50 years after its maker, Joseph Touchais, decided to bottle a small amount for the hell of it in some pre-loved bottles – it’s now a lottery what bottle you receive your 1968 cuve – there were five different styles used!!! It’s an amber-hued wine that has now taken on the oxidative nose of an Amontillado; the 1970 looks far fresher. That said, if you like Amontillado aromas (which I do) then you’ll find the nose of this 1968 rather attractive with its olive, dried apricot and briney characters, toffee and walnut. There’s plenty of welcoming sweetness (60g/L) here and the cool season has imbued it with freshness on the almost malty finish. Intriguing, appetizing although you do have to like oxidative characters. Long, long length.

• Greg Sherwood: Brled, rich oxidative nose but perhaps in a more Bual or Terrantez style. Vibrant salty acids, lovely briney focus and rich, pithy length brimming with cognac spice, sweet orange peel, marmalade and nutty cheese cloth complexity.

Producer Information

Created in 1787, Domaine Touchais is one of the oldest wine domaine in Anjou and it is still one of the most traditional properties in the Loire Valley today. The same ancestral methods have been used over the generations, both in the vineyards and in the winery, in order to create the fine sweet white wines for laying down for which the domaine is renowned. Back at the end of the Second World War, Joseph Touchais decided that, after bottling the wines immediately after the winter, he would age them in the cellars for at least ten years before releasing them for sale, in order to let time do its work. This long ageing allows the wines to develop a wonderful character in the bottle while preserving the freshness of their youth. Today, the domaine is one of the few (or maybe the only one!) to offer such a wide range of vintages, which are often 30 to 40 years old, or even older. Down in the domaines impressive underground cellars in Dou la Fontaine, there is one of the finest and oldest stocks of wine in the world. Through the wines balance and freshness, the domaine seeks to express the quintessence of its appellation. The wines also possess the power and sumptuousness typical of the finest of fine wines.