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Coat of Arms of Clan Gordon

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Coat of Arms of the Meldrum Sept

For those of you that don’t know, I’ve got a fair bit of Scotch cours­ing through my veins; that’s ances­try, not whisky. I derive my Scottish ances­try from my father’s mother, who was of Meldrum decent. Having some free time recently, I decided to pick the Internet’s elec­tronic scow of a brain to see if I couldn’t find out a lit­tle about my Scottish heritage.

It turns out that the Meldrums are a sept of Clan Gordon, which goes on to mean that I am a mem­ber of Clan Gordon. Having looked around a bit, I have suc­ceeded in iden­ti­fy­ing the coat of arms for Clan Gordon (left), the coat of arms for the Meldrum Sept (right) and Clan Gordon’s tar­tan (the post back­ground is the ancient vari­ant of the tartan).

Those of you who know me know that the next thing that I would do is deter­mine whether the Meldrums or the Gordons were asso­ci­ated with any par­tic­u­lar dis­tillery. The Gordon’s are loosely asso­ci­ated with The Speyside sin­gle malt whisky and strongly asso­ci­ated with the liquer Cock O’ The North. I have had The Speyside before and as far as good Scotches go, it’s pretty mediocre. Cock O’ The North seemed inter­est­ing enough to me that I decided to get some shipped across the pond to me so as I could give it a try. The liquer is a mix­ture of The Speyside, Blaeberry (closely related to blue­berry) and a secret ingre­di­ent (known to the head of Clan Gordon and his eldest son). Having recently received my order of Cock O’ The North, I can tell you this: it is fan­tas­tic. The liquer is unbe­liev­ably smooth con­sid­er­ing its potency, fairly sweet and has a very del­i­cate, pleas­ant bou­quet of fla­vors. Cock O’ The North is really fan­tas­tic, the first sip I had was just wow and every time I have a sip; I’m sure, with­out con­test, that it is the best alco­holic bev­er­age I have ever had. Fancy that, gene­o­log­i­cal inves­ti­ga­tions lead me to an incred­i­ble liquer.

Oh yeah, sorry about the leg­i­bil­ity on this one; I tried pretty hard but I couldn’t find a font color that worked over this background.