WTN: Anjou Blanc 1983

Anjou Blanc 1983 Réserve du Fondateur, Vignobles Touchais, Coteaux du Layon, Loire, France.

Semisweet dessertwine on chenin blanc grapes. Around 50g/l residual sugar, 12,5% alc.

Golden light orange colour.
When opening there was a strong aroma of silo juice (the juice that runs off gras mixed with formic acid, used for winter feed for sheep, goats etc). With some time it subsided and there were smell of overripe apples, wet wool and peach.
Sweet taste of peaches and marsipan with nice balancing acid. Long tangerine like aftertaste . Good wine. Bought in Sweden at a reasonable price.

Havard, (sorry fore the misspelled name) I grew up on a farm and know the smell you refer to well, I never heard it called silo juice, but I know exactly of what you speak. I have not said it yet but welcome to the group. With this post, I am wondering if you too grew up on the farm with a lot of animals that had to be fed every day, and usually twice.

Thank you Bob.

No, I have not grown up on a farm. But my uncle has a farm, and we used to visit him every summer, so I will not forget that smell. Don't know what else to call it, though.

I can relate to silo juice well enough. I just always thought of it as fermenting silage. Funny though the animals love it, but AFAIK never got intoxicated from it.

Havard, is this wine the same as Moulin Touchais??

Well Bob, It appears to be the second wine of Moulin Touchais, but only produced this year. I have tried to find more information about it, but it is not easy. The Swedish importer must have a good relationship with the Touchais', because they have 8 vintages of Moulin Touchais for sale. Here in Norway we only get the latest, which is at the moment 1993.