Spanish customs

[Tico]

Last night I went to this new Restaurant, really good food not a big selection of wines but some good ones. Any way, on a table next to mine a really loud Spanish guy was having dinner with some friends; when the waiter presented him the wine he just grabded and served saying that you don't present white wine. This is the first time I hear somthing like that. Is he right?? Is this only a Spanish tradition I don't know about??Or was the guy just being a wiseass??

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