old wine

[tomstevenson]

I'm afraid that it's worth less than the recycling value of the glass in the bottle. Blue Nunn is a brand of German wine called Liebfraumilch and Liebfraumilch is a German wine that few Germans have heard of and even fewer have even tasted. It was made for the export market when tastes were not very sophisticated. That said, Blue Nunn was at least one of the most consistent. It's style is sweet, fresh and grapy, but your 1978 will have dried out and lost both its grapiness and, of course, its freshness. I remember tasting some old bottles of Blue Nunn with Riquet Hess, the winemaker, sometime in the mid-1980s and a few of them were surprisingly good (the original 1921 Blue Nunn had the advantage of a good dollop of Auslese from one the best vintages of the century), so I would try the wine first, before pouring it down the sink.