How To Saber
Learn how to saber from me, Jacqueline Person, winemaker and owner of CARBONISTE Wine.
Saber!
It’s the best party trick out there but there’s a safe way to do it… learn how here.
How To Saber Safely
(And look like a total badass!)
GATHER A TOOL
The tool you use to saber should have a clean edge. We recommend an old kitchen knife, a hatchet, or our CARBONISTE bottle opener which doubles as the perfect saber tool!
PREPARING YOUR BOTTLE
Your bottle needs to be stone cold! Ideally, it’s been in the fridge for hours to get to the fridge temperature. Once your bottle is fridge-temp, we recommend sticking the bottle neck-down into the ice tray, or a bucket of ice. This is an extra step that will ensure your bottle will saber very cleanly. If you skip this step, that bottle needs to be confidently cold after hours in your fridge.
TIME TO SABER!
You’re armed with your tool and your cold bottle; this is where the fun begins! Here are the steps:
Hold the saber tool with your dominant hand. (I’m right-handed, so I hold my tool in my right hand.)
Hold your bottle, neck facing away from you, in the other hand.
Now, using the hand that is holding your tool, find the seam on the bottle. I run my pointer finger around the neck of the bottle until I feel the seam, which will run from the lip of the neck all the way down to the label and base of the bottle. Now that you’ve found the seam, turn the bottle so the seam is at the top of the bottle as you hold it with the neck facing away from you.
For a quick test, gently run the saber tool along the seam from the center of the body, down the neck. This is the motion you will do to saber your bottle, but with force!
Okay, you’re ready to saber. You will run the tool along the seam down the neck and follow through with your arm like you would if hitting a ball with a baseball bat.
GOOD LUCK! Don’t forget to tag @carbonistewine when you saber, any time you saber, and with any bottle!