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Default Alsace Wine Label Question

On 4/10/18 3:23 PM, cruciverbalist wrote:
> Hi all. My wife and I just enjoyed a bottle of 2012 Domaine Ehrhart
> Pinot Gris. Written on the label, under the line Pinot Gris and above
> the line 2012, is IM BERG. What does that mean/signify? I know that
> berg can usually mean town or village. But what is IM? Is that the
> name of a village? Or does it mean something altogether different?


"im" in German is short for "in dem" (in the), so "im Berg" means "in
the town"

HTH
Mark Lipton
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