These raucous shouts weren’t in a stadium, but at a sabering — the slicing open of a Champagne bottle with one smooth motion of a knife. Blake Leonard, a certified sommelier and third-generation heir ...

New Year's Eve is fast approaching, and with it, an opportunity to really savor champagne. And since you've got to open the bottle to get to the good stuff, you might as well do it in the most ...

There aren't many acts more satisfying that sabering a bottle of champagne. The art of sabrage stretches back more than 200 years and was made famous by Napoleon Bonaparte, who opened champagne with ...

This party trick is a real showstopper: Here’s your guide on how to saber a champagne bottle (without going to the emergency room afterward). In the pantheon of party tricks, sabering a bottle of ...

Sabering champagne is a dramatic way to celebrate, but technique matters. Here’s a safe, step-by-step guide to opening a ...

Get ready to impress your guests on December 31. There are several theories behind the origins of Champagne sabering (aka lopping off the tip of the Champagne bottle’s neck with a sword or knife.) ...

Late one night, having consumed the exact quantity of wine that makes this sort of thing seem like a good idea, I watched, giggling, as sommelier Ashley Santoro tried to open a bottle of sparkling ...

The first time you see someone sabre a bottle of Champagne a series of thoughts run through your mind: Why is that person waving a knife… or perhaps a sword? What’s that in their other hand? A bottle ...

During a recent visit to the Wine Room at Atlanta's St. Regis hotel my cocktail reverie is broken by a flurry of commotion. I notice people hustling along the corridor gathering in a clutch near the ...