Bruichladdich has been inspired by Scotland’s other national drink for maturing its whisky.
 
Buckfast is a 15% fortified wine made by Benedictine monks and known affectionately as ‘electric soup’, ‘old buckie’ and ‘commotion lotion’ due to its low price per unit of alcohol.Bruichladdich distillery is to  experiment  using some of these casks for maturing  Islay single malt whisky
 
The iconic tonic was the favoured tipple of Rab C Nesbitt, the celebrated Scottish sitcom character based on an angry, alcoholic, street philosopher from Glasgow’s Govan area. Scotland’s Lanarkshire area, which includes the City of Glasgow,  is claimed to be the largest market in the world for the popular drink accounting for 11% of sales.The cask choice, in honour of a new series of Rab to be shown early 2010, was inspired by Joshua Cheyne, a Glasgow resident with a keen interest in Scotland’s drink culture.

Scotland's Justice Minister Cathy Jamieson launched a campaign to ban the drink, a vanilla rich, red wine based tonic drink based on an 1880 French Benedictine recipe.