DOTLAN EveMaps

u'Buckfast Tonic Wine Salutes You!

Buckfast in the news:

Buckfast plastic containers in the works?
"Over the period requested the Buckfast bottle was used 114 times as a weapon."
"It found that of those offenders who had been drinking immediately before their offence, more than 40% had been drinking Buckfast."

Buckfast tonic wine is a potent cocktail
"Buckfast tonic wine is a potent cocktail that\'s linked with violence, so why do the monks put so much caffeine into it?"

In order to broaden its appeal Buckfast Tonic was changed slightly from a rather severe patent medicine to a smoother, more mature medicated wine.

Buckfast\u2019s distributor J Chandler and Co.: \u201cWhy should we go about changing the recipe of something just to satisfy somebody\'s whim? Drinks companies are licensed to sell this particular drug and I suppose they\u2019re entitled to do it as profitably as they can."'