Domaine TouchaisRéserve Côteaux du Layon
Sweet wine
This wine generally goes well with fruity desserts, lean fish or shellfish.
The Réserve Côteaux du Layon of the Domaine Touchais is in the top 90 of wines of Côteaux du Layon.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Réserve Côteaux du Layon of Domaine Touchais in the region of Loire Valley often reveals types of flavors of apricot, honey or earth and sometimes also flavors of tree fruit, citrus fruit or tropical fruit.
Food and wine pairings with Réserve Côteaux du Layon
Pairings that work perfectly with Réserve Côteaux du Layon
Original food and wine pairings with Réserve Côteaux du Layon
The Réserve Côteaux du Layon of Domaine Touchais matches generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, lean fish or fruity desserts such as recipes of mussels with roquefort cheese, back of cod in foil or apple pie.
Details and technical informations about Domaine Touchais's Réserve Côteaux du Layon.
Discover the grape variety: Chenin blanc
Chameleon whites with taut acidity, ranging from mineral dry (Savennières, Vouvray sec) to off-dry and medium-sweet (Vouvray, Montlouis), sumptuous botrytised sweet (Quarts-de-Chaume, Bonnezeaux, Coteaux du Layon) and brilliant sparkling (Crémant de Loire, Vouvray brut). Aromas of quince, apple, honey, white flowers, beeswax and flint. An Anjou variety, also star of South Africa's Western Cape.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Réserve Côteaux du Layon from Domaine Touchais are 2016, 1971, 2018, 2014 and 2013.
Informations about the Domaine Touchais
The Domaine Touchais is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 16 wines for sale in the of Côteaux du Layon to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Côteaux du Layon
Loire cradle of Anjou's great sweet wines (left bank of the Layon): signature Chenin Blanc as exclusive white king — off-dry to botrytised sweet with notes of quince, apricot, candied pineapple, mango, honey, beeswax, dried fruits and a saffron touch, chiselled acidity balancing the sugar, exceptional ageing (20-50 years). "Sélection de Grains Nobles" mention at the summit. AOC (1950), ~1,400 ha across 27 villages, slaty schists, Layon mists favouring Botrytis cinerea.
The wine region of Loire Valley
Kingdom of lively, dry whites and fine sparklers. Mineral, taut Sauvignon Blanc (Sancerre, Pouilly-Fumé) with citrus and gunflint notes. Multiform Chenin Blanc (Vouvray, Savennières, Layon): straight dry, floral off-dry or noble sweet honey-quince. Saline, iodised Muscadet (Melon B.
The word of the wine: Harvesting and handling
In Champagne, a winegrower who makes his own vintages exclusively from grapes grown on his own property.
