Champagne saber
A champagne saber is an instrument in the shape of a saber for opening champagne and sparkling wine bottles .
Heading the bottles with this saber is also known as sabring . The term comes from the French (saber = saber ), probably going to Napoleonic Cavalry - officers back, which opened the bottle allegedly with their sabers.
execution
To do this, the champagne saber is placed with the cutting edge on the belly of the bottle a finger's width above the label. At an angle of approx. 20 degrees, the saber is moved in a flowing movement towards the bottle neck and strikes from below against the bead of the bottle head, if possible at the point where the longitudinal seam merges into the transverse bead. The head of the champagne bottle with the bead and the cork is knocked off. He can fly many meters. Any glass splinters are thrown away by the pressure of the escaping sparkling wine. In France it is customary to label the severed head and cork with the date of the ceremony and to keep the head as a good luck charm. The practiced saberur opens the bottle with little loss of the sparkling wine . The tradition of the "sabrage" ritual with the briquet saber was established by Napoleon after winning a battle during the Russian campaign in 1812 .
Movie
A well-known scene with the (intentionally clumsy) sabrination of a bottle of sparkling wine can be seen in the introduction to the film Das Boot . Another scene is included in The Battering Ram .
