Friday, July 6, 2018


TIME TO GO TO THE US!!!

The surge of optimism among US investors pushed Wells Fargo/Gallup US Investor and Retirement Optimism Index to record high since September 2000 in the same month in 2017, and the Index remained strong in the fourth quarter. This upbeat reflects investors’ confidence in the economy outlook, stock market, unemployment and personal finances. The slump of business investment in 2015-16 leaves room for further improvement. Enhancement of the stock market will give corporates better access to stock markets to finance their growth. 

 Source: Gallup

Wednesday, July 4, 2018


Test Your Knowledge about Wine

This is table wine.
This is dessert wine.

Well, what is the difference? 
I don't mean the package or colour. The definitions and distinctions are far more complicated.  
The name was based on alcoholic content, not the taste of wine. Table wines were sometimes sweet to the taste, and dessert wines sometimes dry. In fact, half of the table wine sales included wines with sweet taste and miscellaneous other wines. Mere alcohol content did not necessarily draw a definitive line between different types or qualities of wine, and the signification of “table” was arbitrary. In wine-producing European countries, the definition of wines differed widely from the United States. In 1935, France established a system with four categories: Vin de Table (“table wine”), Vin de Pays (“country wine”), VDQS (Vin Delimité de Qualité Supérieure), and AOC (Vin d’Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée). Under this definition, “table wine” was any wine made anywhere in France, and designated low-end wines. The latter two wines were superior quality, categorized as “Quality Wines Produced in Specified Regions (QWpsr).” In 1962, the then European Economic Community created wine categories similar to French definition: “table wine” and “QWpsr.” 
I know you are pretty confused now, so let's stop the elaboration. These European categorizations were not based on alcohol content but on production and management method as well as geographical conditions. The American classification of wines thus can be better understood as distinguishing between cultures of taste rather than between two types of wine.