There's no Storm but I've Found Another Port....

When Sprouts was still Henry's before it became Frazier Farms it sold us our first bottle of Port.
Confused?
So are we, I dunno what to hell to call the store that changes it's name more times then I change my socks!! (and this from the girl who'll switch from stripes to polka dots and back to stripes again, all in one day!)
Ahhhhhhhhh our first bottle of port....Ficklin's ,in case you're curious, and it was DIVINE! Ahhhh I remember it well...vaguely.....
It opened a whole new Port infused world for us...
I really think every one's *first* official alcoholic beverage ought to be a glass of Port. Sweet and potent and just the thing to celebrate being able to do something legally that most y'all were doing way before the legalities of it were even any where near being a reality!
I also think Port is just the thing for all the non-drinkers....short of being a recovered alcoholic who's gonna go on a binge and sink into a deprived mania should you touch the stuff, I really think that a little glass of Port would go down just fine no matter who you are!
Believe it or not there was a time I'd sworn I wouldn't touch a drop of alcohol myself, all based on some very negative things I'd witnessed by other people who misused it. Now that I am older and *all grown up* I realize that every one who drinks isn't a drunk. I learned this fact a little later in life then most but I'm grateful to learning it at all!
A whole world of flavors and experiences have been opened to me since I discovered that alcohol isn't a crutch, it's not an escape...it's a SPICE!!!! It's salt, it's the little extra something that makes food taste triply delicious and a wonderful treat all on it's own! I truly believe that all things in life in moderation, that a person can NOT be ruled by other's people's choices, mistakes and decisions! So imagine my pleasant surprise to discover that alcohol isn't what I observed in OTHER people! It's something I learned, on my own and through my husband, to be a fun splurge, like a roller coaster ride! Of course any one in their RIGHT mind doesn't ride a roller coaster 24 hrs a day! There are those that would say riding a roller coaster even once is insanity....but that doesn't mean there are those of us who can't ride a roller coaster every now and again and enjoy the wild sensations!
However, all that said, if you haven't got your hands on a bottle of Port by now I'm really going to have to insist that you do...it may very well be one of the essential building blocks of life...er...or at least it's a sweet treat worth trying!
Recently I was looking for some Port at our local Frazier Farms previously known as Sprouts and before that Henry's...and what to my wondering eyes did appear but a WHITE PORT! White Port made from white grapes....ohhhhhhhhhhhhh darling why don't you come home with me and be my little love slave! It was like fate, I'd just been reading online about White Port...I hadn't even known such a thing existed before 2 days ago! For something like 11 bucks a bottle it was worth a try......Plus there's this whole "you drool on it you buy it" rule at the store.....
To say it was delicious is like saying a sunset in vivid, eye searing, brain jarring reds is *o.k*.!!!!
It was beyond a pleasant surprise! I love my beautiful red Ficklin ports but this white Krohn Lagrima port was.......mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm refreshingly delicious...the port flavors were expected but there was a clear, less syrupy quality to this wine that was a pleasant surprise. Where as the Ficklin ports felt *thicker* on the tongue this Lagrima by Krohn's was crisper but had all the headiness of a port we'd come to expect!
Oh...by the way...did I mention it was half the price of Ficklin Ports we'd bought????
The only thing I'd ever come close to experiencing as *buyer's remorse* is not buying MORE of a delightful new discovery, like this white port by Krohn's. Having finished the one bottle that we'd bought on a lark, I'm kicking my ass sideways that we'd hadn't thought to snatch up the other bottles available for sale! Now we must endure a knuckle biting evening of semi buyer's remorse hoping against hope that a veil of invisibility has covered the remaining bottles of white port at Frazier Farms previously known as Sprouts and before that Henry's.......
The white Port was THAT good. Invite it to be a member of the family and name it Josephine good!
For 11.99 a bottle of Krohn's Lagrima porto will set you on an evening of mellow fruity delights...and if that doesn't appeal to you then perhaps a nice bowl of rusted screws would be more to your liking.