You’d like to impress your guests at your next dinner party, and you’ve decided to open a bottle of Champagne with a sabre, but you don’t know how. iDealwine is on hand to show you how to sabre Champagne with this useful video. The idea is to open the bottle without injuring your neighbour … or yourself.

Sabring Champagne does not come without risk, but it has to be said that it’s fun to do and watch.

Here are our tips for opening a Champagne bottle with a sabre (or as you can see in the video below, a kitchen knife) like a pro:

• First of all, the bottle has to be really cold. Plunge the neck of the bottle into an ice bucket for several minutes.
• Then, take off the wire cage around the cork. Make sure that there is space around you to avoid someone getting hit and it’s probably best to sabre the Champagne bottle outside too, just in case of spillage. 
• You will then need to locate the small groove in the bottle, which runs all the way down to the neck.
• With the back of the knife or the traditional sabre, you have to hit dimple that runs around the neck of the bottle hard by quickly moving the knife along the small groove. If done correctly, the neck of the bottle, including the cork, should fly off thanks to the pressure within the bottle.
• Quickly serve the first glasses of Champagne, so that you don’t lose any/much of this delicious sparkling wine.

A demonstration from a member of the iDealwine team

Disclaimer to be read quickly like in a television advert voiceover: iDealwine is not responsible for any loss of Champagne or limbs that might occur while trying this at home. 😉

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