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.
What is the Consumer Price Index (CPI)? My Accounting Course 2017-10-02T02:50:47+00:00 Definition: The consumer price index or CPI measures the changes in the price of a certain collection of goods and services bought by consumers in an effort to measure inflation. In other words, it measures the change in a basket of consumer goods like medicine, groceries, and transportation as a benchmark to gauge the cost of living and inflation.