1975 | Moulin Touchais | Coteaux du Layon

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Sweet Wine: 1975 | Moulin Touchais | Coteaux du Layon

A mind-blowing assortment of aromas and flavors including cream, honey, minerals and tangy tropical fruit with a sweetness that is matched by vivacious acidity. The slightly nutty honeyed finish is incredibly long.

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Producer: Moulin Touchais

Ratings: JG | 93

Vintage: 1975

Size: 750ml

ABV: 13%

Varietal: Sauvignon Blanc

Country/Region: France, Loire

A mind-blowing assortment of aromas and flavors including cream, honey, minerals and tangy tropical fruit with a sweetness that is matched by vivacious acidity. The slightly nutty honeyed finish is incredibly long.

Reviews:

• John Gilman: Coteaux du Layon, which generally does not get much botrytis, so that many of its sweeter-styled chenin blancs are a result of the grapes dehydrating on the vine, rather than being concentrated by noble rot. This makes for a rather unique and compelling example of sweet chenin blanc, and such is the case with the new release from Moulin Touchais — the1975. The nose offers up a beautiful mlange of fresh peach, candle wax, lemon oil , a touch of tea leaves, chalky soil tones and spring flowers. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, complex and really beautifully balanced, with great focus and cut and a chiseled, long and classy finish. Just a superb bottle for drinking over the next few decades. 2010-2030+.

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.