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 ...

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 ...

As the spring sunshine falls on the dust and smears of winter, minds turn to spring cleaning – but not for long.

We’re republishing this article today as a tribute to Peter M F Sichel who died peacefully on Monday in New York at the age ...

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.

It’s not always snobbery: there’s a real fascination with “discovery” wines and the genuine desire to tell others about their ...

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, who has died aged 102, was a German Jewish émigré to the US who oversaw postwar CIA activities in Eastern Europe and the Far East until, disillusioned, he resigned to take over his ...