White wine with a rib eye?
How gauche!
GAUCHE. 1. a: lacking social experience or grace.
A white wine can be perfectly acceptable, only true wine snobs stick to the "rules" of color anymore.
It is also not uncommon to match the wine with the side dishes or the sauce that is served with the meat.
The creamed spinich and crab mac 'n cheese may have had something to do with the wine selection.
Why did you feel the need to give us a definition of gauche? I find the folks here quite knowledgable.