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Château de Targé is a wine estate in the Loire Valley whose wines, in the Saumur and Saumur-Champigny appellations, are made from the Chenin and Cabernet Franc grape varieties. It has been certified organic since 2020.
The castle overlooks the Loire, on the Parnay plateau with shallow clay and silt soils resting on the famous limestone subsoil of the region, the tufa, a rock formed during the Cretaceous 90 million years ago, when the ocean still covered most of the Paris and Aquitaine basins, composed of an agglomeration of sands, shells and other compacted marine sediments. The cellars of the Château de Targé are dug into this rock.
The history of the Château de Targé begins in 1655 and in 1878, the marriage of Geneviève Allain-Targé to Charles Ferry, brother of Jules Ferry, became the privileged residence of the Ferry family and the centre of many political meetings. In 1950, Fresnette Ferry, the only descendant of the Ferrys, married Edgard Pisani, then Minister of General de Gaulle, and together they rebuilt the estate, which had been damaged by the two wars, and restored its prosperity. Their son Edouard took over the reins of the estate in 1976, invested in the maintenance of the vines, reduced yields, and built a new cellar with temperature-controlled vats. He enlarged the estate in 1990 with the acquisition of the plots surrounding the historic clos and began to develop practices that respected the vineyards and the environment. In 2000, he joined the Terra Vitis charter, which imposes rigorous traceability of processes in the vineyard and in the cellar, and surrounded himself with the expertise of engineers and doctors in biology Lydia and Claude Bourguignon to analyse the microbial life of soils. In 2004, he set up biodiversity reservoir areas by recovering plant species endemic to the region and protecting the vine's beneficial insects and animals. In 2015, it joined the HVE (High Environmental Value) label and Château de Targé became the first certified estate in the Saumur-Champigny appellation.
In 2016, after working in St Emilion, St Nicolas de Bourgueil, Argentina, California and South Africa, Paul Pisani-Ferry took over the management of the estate from his father Edouard who remains by his side. He launched Organic Farming the same year, with all plots going organic, and certification was obtained in 2020. He is also interested in the Grolleau Noir grape variety and in 2020 planted a small plot in high density in order to rediscover the qualities of this ancient grape variety of the region. .
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