Red with the soul of a white wine!

The Domaine Migot Côtes de Toul Pinot Noir can clock in as low as 11% alcohol; it does not chaptalize it. Thus, it hovers somewhere between the bright and fresh red of the North and the spicy red of the Loire Valley. Served lightly chilled in the summer, it is indeed a red wine with the soul of a white. It is fresh, bright, and elegant! A delightful redcurrant nose, with aromas of blackberries and raspberries on the palate, and a berry finish. Supple tannins and balanced acidity bring this wine together. Simply beautiful. Pinot Noir with a delightful lightness. Keep your dishes light as well. Many vegetables and vegetarian dishes often pair very well with this Pinot Noir. The Domaine Migot Côtes de Toul Pinot Noir is excellent with a Guiche Lorraine

Camille Migot is certainly a serious grower. Migot's family has been working in the vineyards in Côtes de Toul for some 13 generations, so he has quite concrete ideas about what he will and will not do. The estate, only five hectares in size, is organically certified, and the work in the vineyard is impressive. Every grape is harvested by hand. In the cellar, Camille is part of the younger generation that looks beyond the “technologies” of the past decades and returns to something more basic. All fermentations are carried out using natural yeasts. Aging can be performed in stainless steel as well as neutral oak; bottling is carried out with only the lightest filtration. The soul of Migot's Côtes de Toul wines has more to do with a Chablis and Chitry (these for the connoisseurs among us) than with anything else. They are crisp; the fruit can be very detailed, but the layers are always fine and the overall sensation fresh.

Côtes de Toul

You can follow the source of the River Moselle, or as the French call it, the Moselle, for about 100 kilometers south and west of Strasbourg, in the French Alsace. It begins in the Vosges Mountains, on the western flank, and wanders more than 300 kilometers north before entering Luxembourg and Germany. As it winds its way out of Alsace, the Moselle flows through a large number of rural towns in Lorraine. The Lorraine region has a winemaking history dating back to Roman times. During the 15th to 17th centuries, Lorraine was a flourishing region, primarily due to royal and religious ties such as the Dukes of Lorraine and the Bishops of Toul.

However, times were not right… the rise of the railways and the resulting competition from the cheap wines of Languedoc-Roussillon, phylloxera, two world wars (in which parts of Lorraine were literally on the front lines), and Champagne finally establishing its geographical limitations (previously, many grapes from nearby Lorraine went directly into Champagne), creating a huge market for the grapes.

And so, the most important wine-growing regions of Lorraine (Côtes de Toul, Moselle, and Vin de Pays de la Meuse) have stood in the shadows for the past few decades. Although the Côtes de Toul was granted AOC status in 1998, it unfortunately remains largely unknown. In our opinion, quite unjustly!