In Popular Culture
- An episode of Rab C. Nesbitt features Rab and Jamesie making a pilgrimage to Buckfast Abbey.
- Buckfast was featured on the BBC documentary Britain's Really Disgusting Drinks.
- A green bottle of Buckfast can be seen in the final scene of Trainspotting, as Renton exits the hotel room.
- Ted Leo recorded a song titled "A Bottle of Buckie" on the album Living with the Living.
- The cartoon character Groundskeeper Willie is seen drinking a bottle of Buckfast in The Simpsons episode "Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life".
- The Scottish Folk Metal band Alestorm recorded a song entitled Buckfast Powersmash, for their third album.
- Buckfast is regularly referred to in the Irish RTE comedy series, Hardy Bucks.
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