A drive up the Willamette Valley has a number of benefits: great scenery, wine and people. Stoller Family Estate is one of the better destinations for good wine and curated nibbles. One of the more ...

Late one night, having consumed the exact quantity of wine that makes this sort of thing seem like a good idea, I watched, giggling, as sommelier Ashley Santoro tried to open a bottle of sparkling ...

Each evening at nearly 50 St. Regis Hotels and Resorts around the globe, guests gather to welcome nightfall with a ritual Champagne sabering, a St. Regis tradition that goes back to 1904, when John ...

At the St. Regis Venice, when late afternoon starts to shift into twilight, a group of barmen in crisp white jackets prepare for the evening ritual. A Champagne cart armed with an ice bucket and a ...

Tierney Plumb is an editor of Eater’s Northeast region, covering D.C., Boston, Philly, and New York. An age-old way to get the party started is back in style in D.C. Glass typically comes along for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The restaurant wasted a purportedly $2,000 bottle of bubbly with some unsatisfactory sabering on New Year's Eve. Need more proof?

The first time you see someone sabre a bottle of Champagne a series of thoughts run through your mind: Why is that person waving a knife… or perhaps a sword? What’s that in their other hand? A bottle ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tonging is the new Champagne sabering. At least, that’s what I thought until visiting the cellars of Taylor’s, one of the most ...