Opening Champagne & Storage

How to Properly Store Champagne

The first advice came from professionals can actually surprise you. “Do not keep your champagne too long.” Chances are, you’ll be disappointed about the flavour and taste of your wine. This is why most professionals suggested that you should keep your champagne for few months and not within a year unless you have a cellar or a basement that is intended to store champagnes.

At What Temperature Champagne Must be

Stored?• Keep your champagne on the spot

that doesn’t generate extreme heat.• Avoid putting them next to the oven

or any types of appliances and places that can produce extremely hot temperature.

• Keep your bottle of champagne away from intense lights and avoid purchasing champagne from retail stores under the spot lights.

• Temperature is not a big issue when storing your champagne. You could either keep it in a place whereas the temperature doesn’t have too much variation of cold or heat. 

Position of Champagne While Storing

• It is really important to store your bottle of champagne horizontally. By this way the cork will preserved its moist and will not dry out. Letting air into the wine will make a fuss of, affecting its quality and taste. 

• But recently, lots of wine manufacturers developed quality cork so that it doesn’t matter if you put the bottle horizontally or vertically. Make sure that you purchase champagne with quality and tough cork to avoid air.

Opening a Bottle of Champagne

There are two different ways when opening a bottle of champagne.

The first one is pulling the cork by the use of corkscrew opener. The first thing that you need to remove the seal, then wipe the top of the bottle the use the corkscrew by putting some pressure twisting it.

Sabrage

• The other one is called sabrage or sabering. You need a special champagne sabre intended to remove the neck of the bottle. This extraordinary sabre is not meant for slicing. It is a type of sabre that is designed to open a bottle of champagne by removing its neck.

• The bottle of champagne should be chilled since the pressure and the vibration that will cut the glass. Make it a point that the neck area of the bottle of champagne are well-chilled but not ice cold otherwise it will be more difficult cutting the off the neck.

Contact

• Sabering a champagne bottle requires skills and practice to perfect sabrage, you can find the best and affordable champagne sword and sabre at Champagne Sabres.  You can visit our website to get more details –

http://www.champagnesabres.co.uk/collections/champagne-sabres