Blue Nun

Because the 71 wine law destroyed the reputation of Riesling because this mass production of wine, which Germany, I mean flooding the markets worldwide.

I don't know if you know these old brands, Liebfraumilch, you know, Black Tower, Blue Nun, all this.

That was the biggest disaster, possibly a little bit what happened now to Australia with the Anotale, you know.

Cheap, sweet, the English called it super plonk.

Yeah.

I was just trying to be my affable, not kowtowing to the guy who was interviewing us, but Steve Jones in the green room before and found a bottle of Blue Nun wine, gulped most of it to himself, and it just happened to kick in halfway through the interview.

So all hell broke loose.

Are you worried or are you just enjoying yourself?

it.

And then my father had another career, which we're going to talk about, but he went back to the family business in 1960 and, And he took one of the wines in the portfolio and turned it into this international sensation that we know as Blue Nun.

Blue Nun.

And this bottle has a little tiny Blue Nun on the label.

Okay, hold on.

So hold it up to the camera a little bit there.

that brand still exist? It does still exist.

Oh, it does? Yes.