Signs That Point the Way

AS ve reed in John Gill comentary about these pasage:
John 2:10

And saith unto him
The following words; expressing the common custom used at feasts:

every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine;
that is, it is usual with men, when they make entertainments, first to give the guests the best, the most generous, and strongest bodied wine; as being most suitable for them, and they being then better able to bear it, and it being most for the credit of the maker of the feast:

and when men have well drank;
not to excess, but freely, so as that they are exhilarated; and their spirits cheerful, but their brains not intoxicated: so the word, as answering to the Hebrew word is (rkv) , used by the Septuagint in ( Genesis 43:34 ) ( Song of Solomon 5:1 ) ,

then that which is worse;
not bad wine, but (ton elassw) , "that which is lesser"; a weaker bodied wine, that is lowered, and of less strength, and not so intoxicating, and which is fittest for the guests. So Martial F26 advises Sextilianus, after he had drank the tenth cup, not to drink the best wine, but to ask his host for wine of Laletania, which was a weaker and lower sort of wine.

[But] thou hast kept the good wine until now;