Gilman 95+, one of the two top vintages ever – and he knows this wine better than anyone:
The 2005 vintage at Moulin Touchais was a botrytis year in the vineyards and the domaine feels this is destined to be one of the great classic years for the wine. At age ten, it is certainly very, very impressive, offering up a still fairly youthful, but deep and pure bouquet of white peach, quince, honeycomb, chalky soil tones, acacia blossoms and am esthery top note of bee pollen. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, pure and beautifully glazed, with a great core, superb focus and grip and crisp acids on the very, very long and complex finish. This is still a baby and is probably a good dozen years away from really starting to mature, but it is awfully easy to drink already and clearly will be one of the legendary vintages of Moulin Touchais in the fullness of time.
It really is amazing to be able to buy a great French classic like this (which will literally go for another 50 years) for such a reasonable price.
