With a Few Tips about Wine, Today's Female Executive Can Order with Aplomb.

By Gregory J. Gilligan, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Feb. 28--Linda Rigsby remembers the days when women would go to a business dinner and a male executive would order the wine.

Rigsby, general counsel for SunTrust Banks Inc.'s Mid-Atlantic region, now has a management position.

"Women are now in the business world and we are expected to do the ordering," she said.

But many women, she said, don't know enough about wines to order the appropriate ones.

Making the right choice can help put