Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Get ready to impress your guests on December 31. There are several theories behind the origins of Champagne sabering (aka lopping ...

Although it is said to originate from Napoleon Bonaparte’s victory celebrations, the art of sabering — or sabrage, said with Gallic zeal — is now regularly practiced by sommeliers at luxury hotels, ...

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 ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sabering or sabrage — the technique for opening a bottle of Champagne with a saber or a curved blade — started, by some accounts, ...

At the St. Regis Venice, when late afternoon starts to shift into twilight, a group of barmen in crisp white jackets prepare for the evening ritual. A Champagne cart armed with an ice bucket and a ...