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 Buckfast Tonic Wine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Buckfast Tonic Wine commonly known as simply Buckfast or Buckie (in Scotland) is a tonic wine produced by Buckfast Abbey in South Western England.
The wine was first produced in 1890s by the monks at Buckfast Abbey using a recipe brought over from France.
This abusive use of Buckfast is particularly prevalent in the poorer districts of Greater Glasgow in Scotland, and in the surrounding deprived communities (in an area known colloquially as The Buckfast Triangle, with the towns of Airdrie, Bellshill, and Coatbridge it its vertices).
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 ipedia.com: Wine Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Historically, wines have been known by names reflecting their origin, and sometimes style: Bordeaux, Rioja, Mosel and Chianti are all effectively trade names, reflecting the most popular wines produced by the named region.
Whilst a vintage wine is generally made in a single batch and thus each bottle from a particular vintage will taste the same, climactic factors tend to change the character of vintage wines grown from the same vines somewhat from year to year.
Chemical tests of ancient pottery jars reveal that wine was (like beer) produced by the Babylonians about 7000 years ago and is one of the first known biological engineering tasks, where the biological process of fermentation is used in a process.
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 Buckfast Tonic Wine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Buckfast Tonic Wine, commonly known as simply Buckfast, Buckie, Black, Chang or Carrowdore Juice (in Scotland, the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland), is a tonic wine produced by Buckfast Abbey in Devon, south west England.
Buckfast is a common favourite among both young and old in Coatbridge, and the streets are often littered with empty Buckfast bottles.
Coatbridge is also known as the "Buckfast Capital" due to the drink's popularity, although there is an extremely high volume of Buckfast drinkers throughout the entire county of Lanarkshire (incuding Airdrie and Bellshill) known to most as the Buckfast triangle, East Kilbride and Hamilton in South Lanarkshire and the border town of Larkhall.
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Depending on weather conditions, the wine may be influenced by noble rot, although not necessarily in a positive way.
Wines produced according to the Jewish Dietary Laws (Kashrut) are known as Kosher Wines.
A fortified wine is a wine to which additional alcohol has been added, most commonly in the form of brandy (a distilled spirit).
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 Wine
See WINE for an article about the software of the same name.'' Wine is an alcoholic beverage typically made by fermentation of grapes.
A vineyard Wines may also be classified by vinification methods: sparkling, still, fortified, rosé, blush, etc. The colour of wine is determined by the presence or absence of the grape skin during fermentation, since most wine grapes have clear juice.
Part of the expense associated with high-end wine, especially in restaurants, comes from the number of bottles which must be discarded in order to produce a drinkable wine.
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 Buckfast Abbey's Tonic Wine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The recipe for the Tonic wine is attributed to the original French monks who settled at the Abbey in the 1880's.
Base wines from Spain, known as mistellas, were imported and to these were added the tonic ingredients according to the old recipe.
In 1927 a London wine merchant was visiting the Abbey, and in conversation with the Abbot, Anscar Vonnier, it was decided that the monks would continue to make the Tonic wine with the distribution and sale to be carried out by a separate marketing company.
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 Buckfast News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Buckfast have injected millions of pounds into a number of charity organisations across the UK for a number of years but have always made donations anonymously.
BUCKFAST have made a veiled threat to pull out of Scotland after claims they are being made scapegoats for under- age drunken yobs.
The distributors of the tonic wine say they are being unfairly blamed for problems with teenage louts in Lanarkshire.
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 Wine Forum - Lets Talk Wine - Hello, Im new!
British wine is a legal definition that means a manufactured beverage made from imported must, condensed wines or dried grapes reconstituted in the UK.
English wine is the term for wine made from freshly harvested grapes grown in England or Wales.
Interestingly, the name Buckfast comes from Buckfast Abbey in Devon where it was first concocted and it is still made by Benedictine monks to support their monastery.
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 Buckfast Tonic Wine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The recipe for the wine was sent to Buckfast in 1897 by the nephew of one of the original French monks.
Today, the monks make Buckfast Tonic Wine along the same lines and according to the same basic recipe as was used at the end of the last century.
The selection of the base wine is thus of extreme importance, and it has at different times come from Spain, Southern France and Australia.
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 Bum Wines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Buckfast is made in Devon, England at Buckfast Abbey by Benedictine monks.
Buckfast was thick, with a strong taste of molasses.
As far as we can determine, Buckfast is a wine for alcoholics, but out of the price range of the destitute homeless.
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 Sin and tonic - [Sunday Herald]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Physically then, it’s a long way from the streets of central Scotland – where Buckfast Tonic Wine is drunk in public and private, by old-timers and underagers, habitually and anti-socially – to the Devonshire abbey where that wine is made in cellars by monks.
Buckfast Tonic was sold by mail order as a rough patent medicine – three small glasses a day, for good health and lively blood – until 1927, when a London wine merchant made a deal with Abbot Anscar Vonnier, modifying and marketing it as a comestible, an indelicate delicacy, smackingly sweet and heavily fortified.
The “dominant brand in the tonic wine sector” is alone among alcoholic products in being identified not just as an implicit part of a wider social problem, but a problem in itself, a demon in a bottle.
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 BBC NEWS | Magazine | Binge drinking - the Benedictine connection
Alcopops come and go, but Buckfast wine is a perennial favourite among young drinkers keen to test their alcohol limit.
Buckfast Tonic Wine originates from Roman Catholic monks - not a group traditionally associated with the drunken masses - and was first produced by them more than 100 years ago, using a recipe brought from France.
Buckfast is demonised as the ned's drink of choice, but there is little reason for this.
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 Buckfast Abbey Web Site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The history of Buckfast Abbey is extraordinary, since it is the only English medieval monastery to have been restored after the dissolution of the monasteries under King Henry VIII, and used again for its original purpose.
Set in the beautiful valley of the river Dart in Devon, England, Buckfast is home to a community of Benedictine monks, who are striving to dedicate their lives to the service of God by living a life in common under the guidance of the Rule of St. Benedict.
Buckfast attracts almost half a million visitors each year, from all parts of the world.
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 To the People: Latest From Scotland: Fizzy Wine Under Attack
It is also known as "Brown Sauce", "Broon wine", "bottle of fight the world", "bottle of beat the wife", "liquid speed" and "Scranjuice".
Lanarkshire alone is believed to account for up to 7 per cent of worldwide sales of Buckfast, which has been produced in Devon from a monastic recipe since the 1880s.
Buckfast representative Jim Wilson, who met with Scotland's health minister, pointed out that Buckfast comprises "less than 0.5 per cent of the total alcohol market" in Scotland.
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 The Legendary Buckfast Tonic Wine
It was in 1880's that once again the brothers turned their hand to blending alcoholic beverages in the form of 'Buckfast Tonic Wine'.
Around about the same time the wine was slightly altered to make it a more lighter, mature, medicated wine as opposed to the harsh, original product.
This is the mistellas wine being delivered to the abbey in readiness for the addition of the 'secret tonic ingredients'.
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 Guide to Wine - Willipedia
Fortified wines are wines with more alcohol added, originally in order to preserve the wine on long trips overseas.
Red wines are generally served at a cool room temperature.
Really old wine is probably ok to drink because of its alcohol content, it's a matter of taste.
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 Buckfast Abbey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Buckfast Abbey in Buckfastleigh, Devon, England is one of a small number of monasteries active in Britain today.
Buckfast Abbey was founded by Earl Aylward in the reign of King Cnut in 1018.
Brother Adam (born Karl Kehrle in 1898 in Germany, died in 1996) was put in charge of the Abbey's beekeeping, and began importing resistant stock from other nations, creating a vigorous parasite resistant hybrid honeybee known as the Buckfast bee among beekeepers.
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 White Wine Recipe Recipe Using Port Wine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The wine producing region of Alsace in France primarily produces white wines.
Buckfast Tonic Wine - Buckfast Tonic Wine, commonly known as simply Buckfast or Buckie or Bow (in Scotland, the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland), is a tonic wine produced by Buckfast Abbey in Devon, south west England.
Angelica wine - Angelica wine is "white" sweet aromatic domestic wine, resembling Tokay in style.
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 BUCKFAST PAGE
Buckfast Wine (the nectar of the Gods)is a world famous elixir produced by monks in Buckfastleigh in Devon.
The Tonic was sold at the Abbey as medicinal wine, with the directions on the label; 3 small glasses per day (dead on!).
In order to broaden its appeal, the Tonic was changed slightly from a rather severe patent medicine to a smoother, more matured wine.
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 Signatures Plastic Bottles for Buckfast Tonic Wine Petition : [ powered by iPetitions.com ]
As a walker/cyclist using Lanarkshire parks I agree that broken Buckfast Wine bottles are both a danger and an eyesore.
Although Buckfast bottles are not alone in littering our countryside with broken glass, I do agree that there is a high frequecy of Buckfast bottles due to it being the favoured drink of our anti-social members of our society.
Buckfast Tonic wine should be reclassified as a poison.
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 Plastic Bottles for Buckfast Tonic Wine Petition : [ powered by iPetitions.com ]
Bottling Buckfast Tonic Wine in plastic bottles won't solve all the problems associated with it, but it will remove some of the danger.
In addition he states that Buckfast sales are very small compared with other alco-pops and I would question whether his statistics relate to the whole of the UK or to West Central Scotland where the Buckfast problem is widely recognised.
If you contact the abbey directly please be polite, it is not their fault that consumers choose to abuse a tonic wine that is intended for medicinal use.
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 Buckfast Abbey -Buckfast Tonic Wine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Base wines from Spain, known as mistellas, were imported and to these were added the tonic ingredients according to an old recipe.
In 1927 a London wine merchant was visiting the Abbey, and in conversation with the Abbot, Anscar Vonier, it was decided that the monks would continue to make the Tonic wine with the distribution and sale to be carried out by a separate marketing company.
In modern times it continues to be made at Buckfast Abbey along the same lines and according to the same basic recipe as used in the very early days.
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 BBC NEWS | Scotland | Minister meets Buckfast company
The firm had previously raised concerns that Buckfast was being targeted by ministers.
The prevalence of the drink in the so-called Buckfast Triangle, an area east of Glasgow between Airdrie, Coatbridge and Cumbernauld, has already raised concerns.
She said the "root cause" of the problem was failure of the executive to tackle under-age drinking.
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 The Hindu : International : Concern over monks' tonic wine
But such is the concern about Buckfast tonic wine and its popularity with binge drinkers that a United Kingdome Minister was meeting the drink's distributors to discuss the social problems it is being blamed for.
Scottish Health Minister Andy Kerr was holding talks with representatives of the company which distributes the wine on behalf of the Roman Catholic monks of Buckfast Abbey.
The recipe for the tonic wine is attributed to French monks who settled at the abbey in the 1880s.
www.thehindu.com /2006/10/31/stories/2006103100662000.htm   (281 words)

  
 BUCKFAST - Tonic Wine - Devon Monks Wine : Buy online @ TheDrinkShop.com
The recipe for the Tonic wine is attributed to the original French monks who settled at Buckfast Abbey in the 1880's.
We are raised with Buckfast on our dummies, Buckfast sausages on a Saturday morning and a bottle or two of the Lurgan Red on a Saturday night, drank from the obligatory brown bag.
Buckfast represents a whole generation in Lurgan and is something that is being passed to the next generation.
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 Wine Search Online: Wine Clubs and Associations :   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Bacchus - The Oxford Wine Society - The official wine society of the University of Oxford (English).
The Buckfast Society - A society for drinkers of Buckfast Tonic Wine and its associated lifestyle (English).
The Charlotte Chapter of the American Wine Society - Consumer based organization increasing the awareness and appreciation of wine through educational wine seminars and classes (English).
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