Chateau de Targé, Cabernet Franc, Saumur Rosé Méthode Ancestrale, Loire Valley, France 2022

Chateau de Targé's Crémant-style Brut is pure Cabernet Franc that highlights all the freshness and fruity aromas typical of the grape variety, for a festive wine very popular at any celebration.

The subsoil, 90 million years old, was made at the same time (Upper Cretaceous) as that of Vouvray and Champagne. The Saumur mesoclimate is the hottest and driest in the entire Loire Valley.

Soils are ploughed and grassed; aeration by thinning and leaf stripping; natural compost is used. Strict controls have been imposed for the Sustainable Agriculture Terra Vitis labels since 2000, HVE – High Environmental Value since 2014, and Organic Agriculture since 2017.

Manual harvest into openwork boxes; only perfectly ripened grapes are selected to give the wine a fresh and fruity character. Direct pneumatic pressing, slow and gentle so as not to extract bitterness. Fermentation is done in vats.