The Second Glass

Alright. We here at The Second Glass have been preaching about the amazingness of Sabrage (the technique of opening a Champagne bottle with a large knife or sword) for over a year now. We have sliced more bottles than we can count, but we usually don’t talk about the level of danger it usually entails.
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Sabrage is an age-old practice started by Napoleon’s officers when they would ride into town after laying the proverbial ‘pimp-hand’ upon their opposition. The town’s people would reward them with a bottle of Champagne. Preoccupied with riding a horse, the officer would simply draw his sword and lop off the top of the bottle. [...]