Dia telah duduk di sana dengan sepuluh gelas di depannya, dan panik ketika dia mencicipi yang pertama. Dia berpikir bahwa anggur itu adalah orang Portugis, dan pada titik menetapkan argumen untuk mendukung pandangan ini ketika terpikir olehnya bahwa itu mungkin Argentina. Sejak saat itu, kemajuannya melalui pemeriksaan telah menurun. Alih -alih menggunakan spittoon kecil yang dimiliki masing -masing kandidat di mejanya, William telah mengeringkan kaca pertama. Sampel kedua, Côtes du Rhône, ia tidak menemukan kesulitan dalam mengidentifikasi. Didorong oleh keberhasilan ini, dia kembali menelan seluruh kaca, dan pada saat dia mencapai sampel keenam dia mabuk.

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(He had sat there with ten glasses set out in front of him, and panicked when he tasted the first. He thought that the wine was Portuguese, and was on the point of setting out the arguments to support this view when it had occurred to him that it might be Argentinian. From then on, his progress through the examination had gone downhill. Instead of using the small spittoon that each candidate had on his desk, William had drained the first glass dry. The second sample, a Côtes du Rhône, he found no difficulty in identifying. Encouraged by this success, he again swallowed the entire glass, and by the time he reached the sixth sample he was drunk.)