My first Buckfast

[mschatelaine]

After being out this evening with Hal Duncan and neilwilliamson and other friends, Hal invited us back to his place with the promise that he still had two-thirds of a bottle of Buckfast left. I thought he was kidding, and there would be port and wines and absinthe and the other things he is wont to keep in his flat.

He poured us glasses of Buckfast.

For those of my dear readers who have not had the privilege of growing up in Scotland, or the more dubious privilege of encountering the Scottish Ned (a term coined by the local police and thence the populace from the acronym for Non-Educated Delinquent), Buckfast is a fortified wine drink notionally similar to Sanatogen but stronger and cheaper, and the apparent drink of choice of the Ned. (This is of course a slander based on the fact that I regularly find broken Buckfast bottles on or near my doorstep.)

Wine-drinking alcoholic derelicts are renowned for drinking Eldorado, shortened to 'LD'; American equivalents of LD drinkers drink Thunderbird. LD is the fortified wine that is served in the lowest class of working men's pubs, where they don't drink beer as a rule. I've been in exactly one wine-serving pub and I left in short order. Fascinating place, but not for me if I wanted to keep my teeth.

Buckfast is a step down from LD and Thunderbird, and it's a steep step. It's a vile, sweet, alcoholic stuff that tastes of chemical flavourings.

I am currently swilling my mouth out with autumn oak leaf wine from an organic winery in Perth; the Cairn O'Mhor winery, in case anyone would like a recommendation.

Comments

[carl-allery.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear you had a good time *g*. My mum's regular tipple used to be Wincarnis - also a fortified wine, but harder to get hold of now and she doesn't like the Sanatogen stuff. I shall have to keep an eye open next time I'm north of the border. :)

[rhionnach.livejournal.com]

I was a party recently where someone put a bottle of Buckfast in the fridge as it "tastes better chilled"!