If you feel like wine is for wimps and the Ultimate Fighting Championship matches are good meal-time entertainment, you may want to switch to champagne – full contact style – while watching these pay-per-view human cockfights and other entertainment. Napoleon – small, but no sissy – is said to have created a whole new way to pop the cork when handed a celebratory bottle while sitting astride his stallion. Rather than carefully peel the foil and slowly twist the metal cage to painstakingly get to the good stuff, he simply unsheathed his sword, slid it up the neck of the bottle and dispatched the top, complete with cork and cage, in one clean stroke. You, too, can now try this at home: sabering, as it’s now known, requires only the proper tool and a little practice. Shramsberg (www.schramsberg.com), Napa Valley’s finest producer of bubbly, sells a beautiful model created to celebrate its 40th anniversary, Christofle (www.christofle.com) offers a stunning one with an intricate handle from the Haute Orfevrerie workshop and other models are available at Wally’s (www.wallywine.com) in Los Angeles.
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