All of a sudden, everyone under the sun is teaching everyone else in online videos how to sabrage a bottle. Why? Don't get me wrong, I've whacked the top off a champagne bottle or two in my time, but unless you happen to have a large sword, where there is an element of pomp about the whole procedure, what is the point?
If all you have is a kitchen knife, then you might as well not bother as all you are going to look like is an idiot who wants to show off.... in fact, scrub all that.
Sabraging a bottle, is, without doubt, nothing more than showing off and done only by people who think that novelty socks are hysterical. The only exception to this rule, is when you are drunk, don't know what you are doing and there is an element of danger to it as you might, inadvertently, stab someone. Fortunately, the only times I've ever sabraged a bottle is when I have been drunk, so I've never been a show off and, also fortunately, never stabbed anyone either.
The Tasting Note does not condone excessive alcohol consumption, stabbing people with swords or novelty socks
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8rGGpFOTsU
Hope I wasn't one of the ones who were the reason for the complaint (mine was a few months ago and, to be fair, was my first attempt)