Wine, women and restaurants

[amshih]

Hey, female wine drinkers -- has this ever happened to you?

This weekend my date and I stopped by a restaurant to share a late-night bottle of wine. *I* ordered the wine, but when the waiter brought over the bottle he proceeded to present the bottle to my date (not me!) and gave *him* the cork, then filled our glasses without letting him (or me) taste the wine first! Throughout the whole "wine ritual", my date and I were trying hard not to laugh at the incredible faux pas.

So, what's the proper way to handle such blatent sexism in wine service? It's one thing for the waiter to give the man the wine list (I just ask for a second one) -- it's another thing to present the bottle to the man when the woman was the one who ordered the wine!

BTW -- the wine we had was a 1997 Bethel Heights pinot noir. It was rather nice!