BDX

Question 1

bdx viticultural challenges

Answer 1

fungal disease and variable levels of ripeness due to rain and cloud cover

• this is why producers blend

Question 2

most widely planted red bdx

Answer 2

merlot

Question 3

petit verdot

Answer 3

late ripening, only ripens in hot years; deep coloured, tannic aged slowly

Question 4

most widely planted white bdx

Answer 4

semillon

Question 5

Pessac Leognan

Answer 5

-1987
formerly pt of Graves
gravelly soils; N is better than S;

Cru classes of Graves all here
10 communes
La Mission Haut-Brion, Les Carmes Haut-Brion, Domain De Chevalier, Pape-Clément, Haut-Bailly, Haut-Bergey, La Louvière, and Smith-Haut-Lafitte

red and white made here but reds are better