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On Tue, 10 Apr 2018 23:06:19 +0200, Eric Lafontaine
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>On 2018-04-10 21:23, 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?

>
>Quite a few "domaine Ehrhart", but it is quite probable that in any case
>"Im Berg" is the name of a parcel without special ranking (meaning no
>grand cru level)
>
>"Im" is the contracted form of the German "in dem", i.e. "in the", and
>"Berg" is mount, mountain, slope or anything similar, so not in the
>(usually less favored) lower places in the valley
>
>Town/village is "Burg"
>
>Apologies for the wrong direct reply, I just found out about Thunderbird
>now using "Followup" instead of "Reply" for newsgroups


Thank you Mark and Eric for your replies.

Jack