Attempt To Shatter World Record For Most Champagne Bottles Sabered In One Minute
(Long Island, NY) The traditional practice of Champagne Sabering or le Sabrage in French, will be demonstrated during a New Year’s Eve rehearsal and countdown with bottles “beheaded” in a ceremony that began during the Napoleonic era, Thursday, December 31, 2015 at 2 pm, 70 Milburn Avenue, Baldwin, NY. The sabering will be conducted by a professionally trained Champagne swordsman high above a ten-foot-tall towering pyramid of hundreds of Champagne glasses. At the conclusion of the countdown and ceremony, live musicians will play the traditional “Auld Lang Syne” and confetti and balloons will fly from above.
An attempt will be made to break the world record for most champagne bottles sabered in one minute. The previous Guinness World Record was in August 2015 with 66 bottles sabered in one minute, according to the World Record Academy.
This technique became popular in France during Napoleon’s crusades across Europe when the Emperor gave his cavalry officers Champagne in celebration of victories. The officers would then use their sword to ceremoniously behead the bottles. Napoleon, a lover of fine wine and Champagne, is famed for the quote: “Champagne! In victory one deserves it; in defeat one needs it!”
