Restaurant Tipping on Wine

[hotwine]

I've found it a nice way to say thanks for good service, in addition to the tip. And in this case, it helped educate the waiter on the Geyser Peak Cab, since he was a new guy, and not familiar with it. He thanked us profusely for the gesture. It also, of course, reduced the quantity I would have consumed by at least a full glass....which allowed me to navigate that winding road without incident, instead of driving off into the creek, like so many poor souls have done. (I used to fish 'em out with the pick-em-up and a loggin' chain almost every weekend when we lived on that road.) And it saved room for a couple of glasses of Veueve Cliquot when we got home (her favorite, not mine)