comment from the European wino.
Folks,
I usually drink wine (in this I agree with Moore that it is part of the European / latin culture, nobody in Italy or Spain would consider a dinner without a glass "dinner") However, I FULLY understand and back the position of Thomas and Jackson, it is not your job to pay my consumption. Next would be, I would expect you to pay my chicas. Sure NO.
I do volunteer to pick up some of the bottles that went on a large table, and I try to be on the safe, read high, side of what I drunk myself. I do not, however, pick up 5 bottles at a table of 12 persons when I myself maybe had less than one. And I remember nights when it was quite easy to keep track, because we were maybe 3 wine drinkers in the whole group who agreed beforehand to share a bottle or 2, and I remember occasions when at the end just a bunch of empty bottles stood around.
2 checks, one for food, nonalc beverages and beer, and one for wine seems to be a solution. And it should be crystal clear, that whoever has a glass of wine in front of himself, is in for a share of the second bill.
Thomas, you know me, and I sincerely hope that it was not me who contributed to your frustration. I think I know at which event it came up. Should that be the case, please accept my apologies and an invitation to a decent shot of Chivas.
El Alemán