the carbonated wine to genuine champagne or could not tell the difference. On the BBC television series Life on Mars (series two, episode four) Blue Nun is mentioned as the wine that will be served at a party hosted by a wife-swapping couple of which the sleazy husband is a murder suspect. In the television series Phoenix Nights (series 1, episode 4), Brian Potter offers his love interest some Blue Nun. In the television series So What Now?, Lee Evans mentions that he will bring a bottle of Blue Nun to gain access to a party. In the television series Gimme A Break! (season 1, episode 7) episode "Your Prisoner Is Dead", the chief (Dolph Sweet), after previously shooting an armed convenience store robber in self-defense, takes in a session with a young novice priest (Jay Johnson) in the attempt of trying to find solace for his actions where at the end the priest offers him some Blue Nun, then quips afterward "We can get Mother Teresa out of the fridge." Blue Nun is comedy character Alan Partridge's wine of choice. Andrew Neil, the host of the satirical current affairs program This Week, makes frequent references to Blue Nun, as one of a number of running jokes in the series. In the Father Ted episode "Grant Unto Him Eternal Rest", a promiscuous nun is described as "Sister Imelda, the Blue Nun," punning on blue movie or blue comedy. Jeremy Clarkson offered samples of Blue Nun to Germans on his mini series Jeremy Clarkson: Meets the Neighbours (series 1, episode 3.) Clarkson pressed them, demanded answers as to why Germany would produce this terrible wine only for export, and subject the rest of the world to it. All but one of the people interviewed were repulsed by the taste. In the television series Still Game, episode "Lights Out", the character Jack Jarvis, played by Ford Kiernan, asks the barman Boabby to serve a Blue Nun to Isa Drennan. played by Jane McCarry. In film Blue Nun is mentioned in the movie While You Were Sleeping when a character asks his father if he "give that bottle of Blue Nun you got" to his probation officer. See also German wine Wine label References Further reading Jancis Robinson, (Ed.) The Oxford Companion to Wine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, second edition, 1999. External links Official website German brands German wine Wine brands Products introduced