Sabrage

We went to a demonstration of "sabrage" - opening a champagne bottle with a sabre - at a famous wine farm in Franschoek, in the S.A Cape.
I only had an underwater camera with me to take these snaps....and they were scanned later.






Two friends and myself had put Jeannie in as a leftie "volunteer".
Jeannie was up for anything!




The owner of Haut Cabriere, Akim von Arnem, towers his 2m above little Jeannie... and shows her how to quickly slide the sabre up the back-seam of the bottle.

This is the "coup" .... you can just see the cork and top of the bottle neck against the white wall, flying off the chopped bottle.

Voila !




A bottle of "Pierre Jourdan" bubbly fizzes onto the ground, and we all have another drink.





A Sabre eh?
Nice !


We must get one of these for the flat in Gozo.

Pete's champagne collection will fall readily to it's ministrations

.... ..... ...... maybe not!?!