This chapter opens with a description of a wine bottle. The narrator asks the wine steward if he thinks the wine is real. The wine steward says that he thinks it is, and the narrator asks if he can identify the wine again. He says that they will admit that they are selling fake wine. He then asks if the wine has the same sour smell as the wine from which the narrator identified it. He notes that the wine's sour smell is produced when the host drinks too much blood. He asks if there is anything left for the narrator to say, but the narrator does not have much left to say. He glances at the wine and sees that it is exactly as he had said it would be. He looks at the nose and says that the nose is still sensitive. He is not complacent, he says that if he had gotten the taste right, he would not have been complacent. He hands over the wine to the narrator and asks him to tell him the differences between the two bottles. He tells the narrator that the bottle he had passed to him had the "sweet scent of a blonde caucasion" and that the narrator would have had to understand the person if he did not know the difference between them. He explains that the person in question was born on January 8, 1935 and died due to a heart attack on account of