Domaine Touchais

This is a bottle of Domaine Touchais from Vignobles Touchais. Vignobles Touchais is also the estate responsible for the legendary Moulin Touchais wines. As this wines is also a sweet Coteaux de Layon, the question of the relationship between the Moulin Touchais and Domaine Touchais labels presents itself very naturally. Someone posed this question on the Cellartracker Forum and found the answer from the estate itself. Apparently Moulin Touchais is the normal way the sweet wines of Vignobles Touchais are labelled. For a short period, Joseph Touchais experimented with the idea of using the Domaine Touchais label, but that was quickly discontinued. I have bought a few bottles of 1971 and 1975 for more than a reasonable price recently and the above picture was taken from those wines.