ART OF SABRAGE It has been said that the art existed during the middle of the Napoleonic war where the mounted troops of the great Napoleon Bonaparte himself called as Hussars use their saber when knocking the lip of the bottles in times of victory. It became popular after the French revolution when Empress Veuve Clicquot was fully entertained on how the Hussars do the sabering. This is where the art of sabrage was born.
SABERING Using a long champagne sword or sabre is fun and impressive to watch. It may look like the person who knows the technique took years of training to execute it right. But, sabering a bottle is not as difficult as it looks like when you know the secret behind the art. There are about 5 chemical reactions that happen in the champagne bottle since it built the fermentation process. The secret is not ramming the bottle too hard but by just tapping the bottle using a champagne sabre to its weak spots allowing the pressure inside to do the trick.