SCOTS are glugging an extra 3,600 bottles of Buckfast a day in the wake of minimum pricing.

Sales of 'Bucky' have soared since the SNP's crackdown on cheap alcohol, with Scots drinkers turning to the potent tonic wine.

2 Scots are drinking an extra 3,600 bottles of Bucky a day after minimum pricing Credit: Getty Images - Getty

Nats introduced minimum unit pricing in May and sales of Buckfast have since risen by £5.3million to £36.5million.

And a study commissioned by cider maker Aston Manor shows Scots spent 11 per cent more on drink, and consumed four per cent more, than in the same 24 weeks last year.

2 Sales of the tonic wine have soared

Scottish Tory health spokesman Miles Briggs said: "This is the very reason the Scottish Conservatives insisted on a sunset clause being inserted as part of his policy.

"This means that should this worrying pattern continue the Scottish parliament will be able to scrap minimum pricing and investigate other ways of tackling Scotland's damaging relationship with alcohol.

"We warned minimum unit pricing could result in the unintended consequence of consumer behaviour change, with individuals moving from ciders to cheaper products.

"Buckfast, for example, is no more expensive than it was prior to the unit price legislation."

In 2015 the Scottish Prison Service found more than 43 per cent of inmates had drunk Buckfast before their last offence.

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Scots were divided over the new minimum pricing laws with some hitting out at the ‘stupid’ price hike that ‘makes heroin cheaper than booze’ while others saw the funny side.

And one Scot made a three-hour round trip over the border to beat minimum alcohol pricing and buy 50 bottles of his favourite cider.

Shocking moment little girl in pink dress is encouraged to drink from bottle of 15 per cent Buckfast wine

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