Learning about a country thru its drinks

I have not heard about the takin until I saw the wine with the same name here.

The takin is Bhutan's national animal. The legend goes back to the same “Divine Madman,” Lama Drukpa Kuenley. He is the guy responsible for all the phallus displayed in Bhutan.

People wanted to see him perform a miracle. He called for a cow and a goat for lunch. When he was finished, he placed the goat's head on the cow's body and commanded the mix to come to live. I guess this makes the takin the newest creature on the face of the earth. Apparently, nobody is able to relate the takin to any other creature on the earth and some called it a "beestung moose". And that is why, I think the Bhutanese made the takin their national animal instead of the yak or something else. Is their way of saying, we are so different from everybody else.