In her room, in the wee hours of the morning, about to fall asleep, she heard a crash.

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Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. A recent resident of St. FX had a particularly haunting experience.

From austere, slatey rieslings to herby, delicate pinot noirs, as well as the tangy, aromatic sweeties which many of us associate with the country, there's a very northern purity of flavour about them all which ought to strike a chord with us Brits, just as it has with the Scandinavians, who can't get enough of the stuff (long winters, you know). The figure pointed at him and then disappeared. Upon hearing, he remembered that he had borrowed a dish from her, and returned her cup – the same cup that she had seen fall in her room the night before and the same cup she had passed in order to visit this friend. Truth be told, for the most part, these aren't bad wines, just simple ones – give me an honest liebfraumilch over a thin, acidic pub pinot grigio any day.

Somehow, both of those explanations seem preferable to the shameful truth – it's snobbery, pure and simple.

Legend has it that one of the sisters was in love with a priest, but she was so overcome with guilt over the affair that she jumped from a balcony to her death. Wed 20 Oct 2010 05.00 EDT They are now known as the Blue Nun and the Red Priest. The art of Winemaking. Students have also reported lights and appliances turning on in the middle of the night, objects moving around on their own, including textbooks being strewn across dorm room floors, slamming doors, water faucets turn on, shadow figures, and even the sound of an old telephone ringing.

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Another student, whose books and papers regularly rearranged themselves, reported waking in the middle of the night to find a specter with red glowing eyes hovering over his bed. After a happy six hours at the Rheingau Wine Festival in Wiesbaden last month, a fabulous affair which, as the publicity boasts proudly, turns the sedate town centre into "the longest wine bar in the world", I can testify that German wine has an awful lot to offer the more open-minded drinker.

Behind the staid-looking Gothic labels are men and women who aren't afraid of breaking with tradition – maturing their wine at the bottom of a lake, posing naked on their packaging, or starting a winery in their garage – yet all we can see is that damn nun. OUR PRICE: $155.88. The value of German wine sales in the UK dropped 22% last year, although I take heart from the fact that this was mostly due to a sharp decline in the purchase of sub-£3 bottles.


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In the old pressing room of his winery in the cloyingly picturesque Rhine village of Hattenheim, Stefan Ress has a framed copy of a page from the 1896 price list (pdf) from Berry Bros & Rudd, then, as now, wine merchants to royalty. SAVE $84.00! Go directly to shout page. Every year, Freshmen report a ghostly figure in a glowing blue habit drifting through their dorm rooms,   sounds of footsteps walking the halls at night, hearing disembodied voices in hallways, and stifled giggles in the hallways when no one was there. Well-funded advertising campaigns promoted it as the wine you could drink "right through the meal", protecting the innocent drinker from the humiliation of inadvertently requesting chianti during a prawn cocktail with the boss. Sku: 13470. - "The Seminary House" ghostly resident, #STFX #Anitgonish #Haunted #NovaScotia #GhostStory, The Blue Nun of St. Francis Xavier University.

In the 1950s, the liebfraumilch was so fashionable that it sold for the same price as a second growth Bordeaux, and by the 1980s, the company was exporting nearly two million cases a year. Every year, Freshmen report a ghostly figure in a glowing blue habit drifting through their dorm rooms, sounds of footsteps walking the halls at night, hearing disembodied voices in hallways, and stifled giggles in the hallways when no one was there.

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Too afraid to pick it up, she left the distinct pieces there. An apparition of a priest, has often been seen lurking around the school's spiral stairway.

Instead, like drunks at closing time, we sought our pleasure elsewhere, and the natural sweetness of German wines appealed immediately to the Victorian palate. The first, and most successful of these was, of course, Blue Nun, which, according to Jancis Robinson's Oxford Companion to Wine, "preyed on the fears of an unsophisticated wine drinking public". SAVE $7.00!

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This approach is very successful in today’s market and, as the promotional video above indicates, Blue Nun is back (if it ever really went away). Blue Nun became a brand with the same sort of broad portfolio of wines that, say, Barefoot Cellars offers. Available for everyone, funded by readers. A seemingly mundane, yet inexplicable event that can only be attributed to paranormal happenings. Leave feedback. Scrobbling is when Last.fm tracks the music you listen to and automatically adds it to your music profile. Do you know any background info about this track? War, hyperinflation, and more war are not often great for business, however, and German winemakers were forced to cast around for new ways of marketing their product.
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Lighter styles are the obvious antidote to the alcoholic New World monsters we all like to blame for our over-consumption, and partner perfectly with our favourite, spice-laden foodstuffs. Is it mere ignorant prejudice that puts Britain off German wine – do you drink it, and if so, what's your favourite? Be the first to review this product. OUR PRICE: $12.99.

The next day, she recounted this story to her friend.

One of the reasons that hock was so popular here in the first place was the Napoleonic wars: the tiny tyrant hoped to break British morale by depriving the elite of their favourite intoxicant. In fact – sacre bleu!

Turning her head, she saw that a cup had fallen to the ground, its plastic lid and straw separated on the floor.

Blue Nun; Zoom. Still, things won't change until you can find the good stuff as easily as a decent Aussie riesling: on the high street, only Waitrose and Majestic pay German wines more than lip service (for a proper selection try Berry Bros or The Winery in Maida Vale – both deliver nationwide).

Let us know what you think of the Last.fm website. For a few glorious decades, they were the toast of the town – a hock and seltzer was Oscar Wilde's aperitif of choice, and a Rudesheim riesling was served with the poached salmon and mousseline sauce in the first class dining room the night the Titanic went down. Such historical curiosities are further proof (for those young enough to need it) that, until liebfraumilch came along and spoilt the party, Germany was feted as one of the finest white wine producers in the world – as Hugh Johnson recalls, until quite recently, "no great dinner could begin without its Mosel … or Rhine Spatlese." The problem is that the fruity, uncomplicated flavours of Blue Nun, and imitators like Black Tower, attract the novice drinker who, as their taste matures, has a tendency to churlishly spurn the wines which turned them on to the pleasures of the grape in the first place. The producers are puzzled by our stubbornness in the face of their charm assault – 'if you show up with sweet wines like this in Norway, you're like a rock star!'

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They are now known as the Blue Nun and the Red Priest. She was perhaps the one constant. Simon tells me that New World riesling producers appreciate the special qualities of German wines: "they say you just can't achieve that particular balance of ripeness and rapier-like acidity ... anywhere else.".

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