Heat is a wine killer. Temperatures over 70 degrees for a significant amount of time can permanently taint the flavor of wine. Above 80 degrees or so and you are literally starting to cook the wine. Wine heat damage tastes unpleasantly sour and jammyâ¦sort of like canned prunes.
US Economy. Definition: The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a monthly measurement of U.S. prices for most household goods and services. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) surveys the prices of 80,000 consumer items to create the index. It represents the prices of a cross-section of goods and services commonly bought by primarily urban households.
Recently, the Labor Research and Statistics Office of California's Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) released updated California consumer price index (CPI) information covering all of 2014. The CPI is a measure of inflation experienced by urban consumers (not a cost-of-living index, per se). CPI allows a comparison of what a fixed market basket of goods and services costs compared with what the same basket cost a month or a year or multiple years ago.