The Winery Moulin Touchais of Centre Loire of Loire Valley

Winery Moulin Touchais
The winery offers 3 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.2.
It is ranked in the top 21 of the estates of Loire Valley.
It is located in Centre Loire in the region of Loire Valley

The Winery Moulin Touchais is one of the world's great estates. It offers 3 wines for sale in of Centre Loire to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Moulin Touchais wines

Looking for the best Winery Moulin Touchais wines in Centre Loire among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Moulin Touchais wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery Moulin Touchais wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top white wines of Winery Moulin Touchais

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Moulin Touchais

How Winery Moulin Touchais wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), vegetarian or poultry such as recipes of gratin dauphinois with smoked salmon, mushroom, bacon and gruyere quiche or chicken chop suey.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Moulin Touchais

On the nose the white wine of Winery Moulin Touchais. often reveals types of flavors of pear, almonds or honey and sometimes also flavors of non oak, earth or microbio. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Moulin Touchais. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Moulin Touchais

  • 1959With an average score of 4.70/5
  • 1947With an average score of 4.70/5
  • 1949With an average score of 4.60/5
  • 1955With an average score of 4.50/5
  • 1983With an average score of 3.60/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Moulin Touchais.

  • Chenin Blanc

Discovering the wine region of Centre Loire

The Centre-Loire sub-region is located in the Loire Valley region, southeast of the Paris Basin. Its surface area is difficult to determine and the vineyards are made up of plots that vary in Size and are isolated, but also of plots of several hundred hectares. On a limestone base, the Centre-Loire has at least four types of soil: the terres blanches, Deep brown calcareous soils, which give the wines firmness, vivacity and fullness; the caillotes, Hard limestone soils, which give the wines pleasure, tenderness in their youth and a characteristic fruitiness; the grillotes, of friable limestone from which the wines take notes of candied fruits and honey; and the chailloux, siliceous with fine and coarse elements (clays, silts and sands, gravels, and pebbles), giving the wines firmness, persistent aromas, a Spicy nuance and a note of gunflint The caillotes and grillottes are shallow, stony soils, which Warm up quickly in the spring and have good rainwater Runoff, resulting in early ripening of the grapes for the production of fine, Soft, fruity wines. The semi-continental climate with microclimatic variations is ideal for the Sauvignon grape variety which gives white wines a rare harmony and perfection, and also ideal for the Pinot Noir which produces little known but no less surprising red wines.

The Centre-Loire region has nine appellations but is particularly well known for its AOC Sancerre, Quincy, Reuilly and Menetou-Salon. These appellations include those from the Auvergne vineyards (Saint-Pourçain, Côte-Roannaise and Côtes-du-Forez).

The top sweet wines of Winery Moulin Touchais

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Winery Moulin Touchais

How Winery Moulin Touchais wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, lean fish or fruity desserts such as recipes of lobster armorican style, my brazilian sister-in-law's coconut milk fish or grandma's cherry clafoutis.

Organoleptic analysis of sweet wines of Winery Moulin Touchais

On the nose the sweet wine of Winery Moulin Touchais. often reveals types of flavors of butterscotch, pineapple or cream and sometimes also flavors of grapefruit, tropical or citrus.

The best vintages in the sweet wines of Winery Moulin Touchais

  • 1964With an average score of 4.90/5
  • 1969With an average score of 4.50/5
  • 1995With an average score of 4.40/5
  • 1993With an average score of 4.40/5
  • 1959With an average score of 4.40/5
  • 2002With an average score of 4.30/5

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Winery Moulin Touchais.

  • Chenin Blanc

Discover the grape variety: Flame seedless

Apyrene variety of table grapes obtained in 1961 in the United States (California) by John H. Weinberger and F.N. Harmon by complex crossing between (cardinal x sultanin) x [(molinera gorda x tifafihi ahmer ) x (muscat of Alexandria x sultanin)] and put in culture in 1973. It should be noted that the white Fresno seedless is the result of the same cross made by the same breeders. It can be found in Australia, Chile, Argentina, South Africa, Morocco, Tunisia, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Bulgaria, the United States (California) where it occupies a large area, etc. In France it is practically unknown, although it is registered in the Official Catalogue of table grape varieties, list A2.

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Discover the grape variety: Merlot

Merlot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Bordeaux). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small to medium sized bunches, and medium sized grapes. Merlot noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Armagnac, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Beaujolais, Provence & Corsica, Savoie & Bugey.