But, by a miracle, the family wine cellar was left intact – about 1,333,000 bottles of Blue Nun contained in bulk barrels. They were declared off-limits to US troops, a vintage treasure which to ...

Peter Sichel, a fourth-generation vintner, was best known as the man who popularized Blue Nun, the easygoing, semisweet German wine that became an international success in the 1960s. At its ...

After working as a spy during World War II and the Cold War, he returned to his family’s wine business, where he helped build Blue Nun into one of America’s favorite wines. Sichel passed away Feb. 24.

He played a crucial role in the early days of the C.I.A., as a station chief in Cold War Berlin and Hong Kong, before shifting gears to popularize Blue Nun wine. By Eric Asimov Refugee ...

Sichel with his famous product in 1980, the height of its popularity: back in the 1950s he had risen through the CIA’s ranks to be head of Eastern Europe operations - Grant Peterson/Fairfax ...