How to Do Sabrage (Open Champagne Bottle With Sabre)

[@paulm8392]

Thanks. Nice clear video and some good tips and demonstrations of what happens when it goes wrong! Sadly I recognise the result of using a warm bottle as that is exactly what happened with my special bottle that I brought home from Rheims after successfully sabreing a bottle in the winery.

[@NoSediment]

Cheers! 🍾🥂

[@MaryanaMaskar]

I've just sabered my first bottle! YAY! It was Cava! Two minutes looking for the seam, then just one pop and we're in the business!

[@NoSediment]

So great! Judging by Your enthusiasm, it seems that You also had great experience doing it! So cheers! 🥂✨

[@michaelmugisha7418]

I like the dog running towards the camera

[@NoSediment]

He always tries to steal my camera moments 🐕😅

[@Blair338RUM]

Oh dear, I use a Model 1821 French Infantry Officers sabre….I like to think that the original owner would have approved. Great technical points Agnese. 🇫🇷

[@Blair338RUM]

The blade is etched with La Victoire est a Nous 🤣🇫🇷

[@owea]

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[@TonyNeumeyer]

fabulous explanation. Thank you.

[@NoSediment]

Thank You! 🙏🏻 Happy You enjoyed it! ✨

[@conversationmedialimited4148]

Beautiful

[@NoSediment]

Thank You! 🍾🍾🍾

[@vernshein5430]

I saber along the vertical seam of the bottle, making contact where the seam meets the rim at the bottle mouth.

[@Immopimmo]

Doesn't have to be champagne either. My party trick is to open glass bottles with a bowie knife. The top just pops right off. So long as the bottle is cold and there's pressure it's no problem.

[@NoSediment]

I only do it with wines that have decent amount of pressure. Otherwise I am scared. 😳😬😬😬

[@arribaxx]

I just HAVE to try that next time!

[@Thanosdiamatidis94]

Hello …… is it a safe way?? the fact that the bottle breaks scares me a little!! Thanks 🙏🇬🇷

[@NoSediment]

More or less safe. 😮‍💨 Theoretically the pressure that is in the bottle pushes out any potential glass shards. But it is better to be safe than sorry - and some somms suggest pouring over the filter.

[@Thanosdiamatidis94]

Thanks for the prompt reply. Your videos are very interesting and have helped me a lot. I am from Naoussa and we have very good Xinomavro, as I think you will already know, I love wine and half of my family are winemakers. If you can help me with something, I want to organize a tasting with food pairing of 4 wine labels, can you suggest a video for me to get some additional information???

[@yanix7]

Great Video!

[@NoSediment]

Thank you 🥂

[@bryensaeed]

Which cava can ve sabraged pls?

[@NoSediment]

The chilled one. 😉😉😉

[@valdislusis2694]

šis man patika pat neskatoties uz 1 konkrēta importētāja šampanieša reklāmu :D P.S. Tas patiesi ir labs šampis :)

[@NoSediment]

Liels paldies! 🥂Es izvēlos tos šampaniešus, kas man patīk un/vai ir pieejami! ✨ Un šis ir izcils 🍾

[@scarlettohara7862]

can you do sabrage on a martini asti bottle?

[@NoSediment]

I don’t know, I am quite sure it has less pressure, than Champagne bottle, so it might not be that safe. 🫣🤞

[@sambowles9746]

I like your videos, thanks for posting good content. Why is sabrage a thing? Is there any particular benefit? It seems risky with little to no additional reward compared to just popping the cork. Just for show?

[@NoSediment]

Thank You! 🥂🍾 You are right, there is no other additional reward for doing a sabrage than that of a show. In fact, there are more risks than benefits, such as broken expensive bottle, or even worse - injury. 😞 Opening bottle with sabre has origins in history when Napoleon’s army removed the cork with their saber while still sitting on the horse. ✨🥂🍾

[@bendakstarkiller1270]

Would it not be a viable option if, somehow, the "hat" of the cork came off, but the stem remained?

[@paulm8392]

Actually you do not mention about finding the seam of the bottle? Why not?

[@NoSediment]

It is not critical. I know some somms says that is important, but I have never used it, and with sword it always works for me. Historically bottles were blown, and then they wouldn’t have seam, and still people would open with sabrage. 🤷‍♀️

[@paulm8392]

@@NoSediment OK thanks. I wondered whether the vibration of the blade running down the seam would still up the gases and increase the pressure to help blow the top off, but instead it seems that would be an unhelpful effect, similar to shaking bottle/using warm bottle.

[@DavidJKM]

Could one also say that, if done outside, it should not be done where people walk their dogs or where children may play barefoot? Especially if done in the evening, with fading light, and the sabreur is not entirely sober when attempting to clear up (assuming they remember/ bother to do so) - both of which seem quite likely. One person's moment of instagrammable glamour is not worth another's lacerated feet.

[@NoSediment]

Completely agree! Even if people are not walking barefoot we should remember to clean after ourselves and leave the area at the same level when we arrived. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@PersonausdemAll]

Tanks

[@robertomangioni9272]

Samurai Sommelier? ahaha soooo unnecessary to open like that, in my modest opinion!

[@NoSediment]

Probably not, but it can be a lot of fun’ 😉

[@snakegs4203]

Saturn is 13 million miles away from the Sun. The perfect NASA doctored images of Saturn with full shadow over rings 😂😂

[@christianmunoz470]

Thanks i lost 5 wine glass of my mom

[@NoSediment]

Great! Cheers! 🙌

[@Corvusdotensis]

Excuse me, but what you call "saber" looks like a knife or a "messer" for me, lady.

[@NoSediment]

Mini saber? 🤷‍♀️