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Welcome everybody and today’s Wine Word of the Day is cheap. No, I’m not talking about cheap wines you’d find in the drugstore. I mean the actual character of today’s podcast is cheap. So, if you are looking for more sophistication in your wine education, I’m afraid you’re in the wrong place.
Because, on this day in 1998, the Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for male, uh, you know, erectile, uh, dysfunction. It was the first time a drug was approved for this flagging, I mean, nagging problem.
That brings us up to today’s Wine Word of the Day: Big
See, I told you today’s episode was cheap. Fortunately, statistics prove that podcasts have the fewest listeners during the weekends. So, I’m taking my chances that nobody is actually listening. But on the other hand, what do I know about statistics? It was the only class I had to repeat in college. And boy was my dad upset. Yup, nothing like failing a $1600 class at a private university to get your father’s unwanted attention.
But I digress.
Where was I? Oh yeah, Big. So here I go trying to make the transition between something small and blue to something, uh, big and purple. And when I say “big and purple,” I’m talking about wine here, folks. So let’s stay focused, okay?
Big is a tasting term for a rich, full-bodied wine with an assertive and intense concentration of flavor and alcohol. Yet, they are balanced in the way that two sumo wrestlers can be balanced on a playground teeter-totter. They can be over-the-top for some occasions, but they certainly get your attention when drunk.
For transcripts, links and more podcasts, go to moonstonecellars.com/wwd and if you have any suggestions for more words, historical events or Viagra precautions like:
There is a potential for cardiac risk of sexual activity in patients with preexisting cardiovascular disease. Therefore, treatments for erectile dysfunction, including VIAGRA, should not be generally used in men for whom sexual activity is inadvisable because of their underlying cardiovascular status.
VIAGRA has systemic vasodilatory properties that resulted in transient decreases in supine blood pressure in healthy volunteers. While this normally would be expected to be of little consequence in most patients, prior to prescribing VIAGRA, physicians should carefully consider whether their patients with underlying cardiovascular disease could be affected adversely by such vasodilatory effects, especially in combination with sexual activity.
Patients with the following underlying conditions can be particularly sensitive to the actions of vasodilators including VIAGRA – those with left ventricular outflow obstruction and those with severely impaired autonomic control of blood pressure.
There is no controlled clinical data on the safety or efficacy of VIAGRA in the following groups; if prescribed, this should be done with caution.
- Patients who have suffered a myocardial infarction, stroke, or life-threatening arrhythmia within the last 6 months
- Patients with resting hypotension or hypertension
- Patients with cardiac failure or coronary artery disease causing unstable angina
- Patients with retinitis pigmentosa
Prolonged erection greater than four hours. In the event of an erection that persists longer than four hours, the patient should seek immediate medical assistance as penile tissue damage and permanent loss of potency could result…or call Jill in the Tasting Room.
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