Editing Buckfast Abbey (section)

===Buckfast Tonic Wine===
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The monastery's most successful product is [[Buckfast Tonic Wine]], a fortified wine which the monks began making in the 1890s. In 1927, the Abbey lost its licence to sell wine and as a result, the Abbot allowed wine merchants to distribute on behalf of the Abbey. At the same time, the recipe was changed to be less of a [[patent medicine]] and more of a medicated wine.<ref name="Buckfast">{{cite web|url=http://www.buckfast.org.uk/tonic-wine_105.html|title=History of the Tonic Wine|publisher=Buckfast Abbey|access-date=26 December 2013}}</ref>

Its perceived links to violent anti-social behaviour – especially in [[Buckfast Tonic Wine#Controversy in Scotland|Scotland]] – have been a controversial issue for the abbey<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8464359.stm|title=Buckfast 'in 5,000 crime reports'|date=18 January 2010|work=BBC News|access-date=2011-03-02|archive-date=15 July 2012|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120715075440/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8464359.stm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/politics/Health-minister-condemns-Buckfast-tonic.2813228.jp|title=Health minister condemns Buckfast tonic wine|publisher=Scotsman.com – Scotland on Sunday|date=24 September 2006|access-date=2011-03-02|last=MacMillan|first=Arthur}}</ref> which has employed a youth worker in one area affected.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-25236076|title=Buckfast abbey rejects blame for 'tonic wine crime'|date=25 December 2013|work=BBC News|access-date=2013-12-25|archive-date=7 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181007111350/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-25236076|url-status=live}}</ref>

Following a decision by [[Police Scotland]] to attach anti-crime labels to bottles in some areas, the distributor for Great Britain, J Chandler and Co. announced its intention to pursue legal action.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-21545231|title=Police face legal action over Buckfast anti-crime labels|date=22 February 2013|work=BBC News|access-date=2013-12-25|archive-date=17 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181217022130/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-21545231|url-status=live}}</ref>