Champagne

A Backyard Spectacle

Posted July 30th, 2010 09:07 by Tom Firth

The wine industry is full of what could be politely called ‘one-upmanship,’ which aside from the usual “what I drank vs. what you drank,” or with whom, or where, it also includes a number of other measuring sticks. This would include using a butler’s friend or ‘ah-so’ bottle opener, opening a bottle with a shoe and one of my favourites, opening a bottle of champagne or sparkling wine with a sabre.

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Champagne Sabrage at Wine Access

Posted July 27th, 2010 09:07 by The Editors

We’ve started a bit of a Friday tradition, here at Wine Access HQ, of doing something fun and wine-related to wrap up the week. This week, we learned how to sabre Champagne/sparkling wine, the fine art of sabrage.

If you’re a wine aficionado, you probably know what sabrage is and you may even know how to do it. For those of you who are new to wine, sabrage is when you use a sabre or knife to cut the top off of a bottle of sparkling wine, separating the collar from the neck of the bottle.

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Working New Year's Eve: Step-by-Step

Posted January 7th, 2010 05:01 by Brad Royale

Despite my habitual employment within restaurants I haven't worked a New Year's Eve (NYE) in about four years.  Beautiful luck and fanciful timing I suppose have played a roll in this somewhat freeing escape from a busy restaurant holiday evening.  As it has worked out, until this year, the celebrated event has fallen on evenings which were not my normal nights to work (awesome); however this year it fell smack on a Thursday, Bradley's night of the week to work at Divino (blasted).  It's not that I don't like working holidays, I do, they tend to be spirited and well enthused and carry a

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