I have a couple bottles of this in my liquor cabinet. It’s a bit of a gag as my sister in law is from Scotland.
Overall taste is herbal with a main taste of cloves. Very sweet. Cough syrup comparisons aren’t too far off, though I don’t really think it tastes medicinal. No bartender I’ve done shots with wanted more, but the story of it is great.
There are two versions, the Buckfast Monastery is in England and their version is lower caffeine. A higher caffeine version is made for Scotland and I believe also Ireland (that’s were I bought much of mine). It’s cheap, but I don’t know of anyone that imports it.
