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Question 1
The primary distinction between the soils of Hermitage's Les Bessards and Le Méal lieux-dits is:
A
Les Bessards has deep clay and alluvial soils; Le Méal has pure shallow granite, producing the most structured wines
B
Les Bessards sits on pure, shallow granite, producing the most powerful and age-demanding wines; Le Méal has deeper soils with loess over granite, producing wines with more immediate aromatic balance
C
Les Bessards is the white wine lieu-dit, farmed primarily with Marsanne and Roussanne; Le Méal is the red wine lieu-dit, planted exclusively with Syrah
D
Both lieux-dits share identical granite soils, because the stylistic difference is entirely a function of vine age, with Les Bessards planted in the 1850s and Le Méal planted in the 1950s
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