Buckfast

Flavoured / Mulled Wine and Mead

Buckfast Tonic Wine is made by monks at the Buckfast Abbey in Devon. The original recipe was brought there in the late 19th century by a group of French Benedictine monks, forced to leave their own abbey in Dijon because of new, anti-clerical laws. After the First World War, the monks were struggling to obtain a license to sell their tonic wine due to strict, post-war regulations.