Blue Nun

This change was reflected in Blue Nun being the drink of choice of Alan Partridge, a fictional, over-the-hill British television and radio presenter.

[4] However, sales increased after Blue Nun was purchased by the Mosel-based German family firm Langguth, which bought the previous owners Sichel in 1996.

They repositioned the brand, reclassifying it from a Liebfraumilch to a regular Qualitätswein bestimmter Anbaugebiete (QbA), changing the grapes from Müller-Thurgau to 30% Riesling, and making it less sweet.

[6] The Beastie Boys album Check Your Head includes a musical interlude titled "The Blue Nun", in which a narrator describes a party held in the comfortable study in Peter Sichel's New York townhouse, in which the guests compliment the wine.

Steve Jones, guitarist of the Sex Pistols, stated in his autobiography Lonely Boy that he drank at least two whole bottles of Blue Nun before the band's infamous Thames Television interview with host Bill Grundy dated 1 December 1976.

[8] In the comic strip Achewood, two cats, Roast Beef and Ray, get drunk on Blue Nun during a road trip, describing it as "the wine so bad it made the news.

(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."

[12] Andrew Neil, the host of the satirical current affairs programme This Week, made frequent references to Blue Nun, as one of a number of running jokes in the series.

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.