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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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