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How to Saber a Champagne Bottle

In this video, sommelier Patrick Cappiello of New York’s wonderful Pearl & Ash restaurant shows us just how to pop the top to impress at a New Year's Eve bash. (December 2014. Camera, Editor)

Want to impress the crowd at your New Year's Eve celebration? Nothing does it quite like deftly decapitating a bottle of bubbly with a gleaming blade. Oh sure, it's a little intimidating at first, but sabrage, or, for the layman (you know, just about all of us) the act of getting all Ned Stark on your champagne, is a time honored tradition with a relatively slim annual injury rate.