Moulin Touchais Coteaux du Layon 2002 0426JACKSON Most big-house non-vintage Champagne leans

Most big-house non-vintage Champagne leans on Pinot Noir

where our Valdiguié lives

blended with reserve wines

The name is not code for anything romantic: Virgile Lignier labels this wine for the tank it lives in (No

Moulin Touchais Coteaux du Layon 2002 0426JACKSON Most big-house non-vintage Champagne leansWe don't drink enough sweet wines. They offer pleasures like no other wines and Moulin Touchais is one of the world's great cases for the category. Sweet Chenin Blanc from the hills along the Layon river in the Loire, made by a family that's been at it since 1787 using a unique two pass harvest method: a first pick of grapes still bursting with acid (for the wine's backbone and 50 100 year aging potential), then a later pick of fully ripe fruit (for