How to open a bottle of champagne, and what to close back
The procedure of opening a bottle of champagne has always been a symbol of the beginning of the holiday, in accordance, if you do not follow the accuracy of the impression of the evening can be somewhat spoiled. It is especially important to have the appropriate skills, if you need to open champagne to a girl.
So, to avoid such unpleasant situations, it is desirable to know, how to properly open champagne.
How to open champagne with a plastic stopper
It is necessary to specify at once, that all types of champagne are corked, as required by the technical conditions of manufacture of such a product. The product is sealed with a plastic stopper, is not actually champagne, and belongs to this category only by name.
A feature of this product is the extremely high pressure inside the bottle, as well as a significant content of carbon dioxide in this wine, which actively forms foam when opening the bottle.
To safely open champagne of this type after untwisting the fixing wire is necessary, corked, hold its end with your thumb, to prevent departure under the influence of high internal pressure.
Basically, you do not have to make an effort to remove the plug, rather, need to keep, to prevent a shot, prevent foaming of wine and spilling from the bottle.
As the stopper moves out of the bottle, its condition must be monitored by gas pressure, to prevent disruption. When the plug is completely out of the neck, it should be tilted slightly, to smoothly release carbon dioxide and prevent shots.
How to open champagne with a wooden stopper
Wines are sealed with a wooden cork, undergoing the process of natural champagne (carbon dioxide formation), therefore, the internal pressure in the bottle with this drink is relatively small. This will make it much easier to open champagne without cotton.
In this case, after unscrewing the retaining wire is required, holding a cork in his left hand, turn the bottle behind the bottom with your right hand, as if twisting the neck of the bottle with a cork.
When the cork is almost completely removed from the bottle, it is necessary to slow down its progress, to avoid the shot.
How to open champagne without a shot
The main condition, to quietly open the champagne, there is a slow extraction of the plug, due to which the gaseous carbon dioxide present in the bottle is smoothly released into the atmosphere and the shot does not occur.
To reduce the pressure of carbon dioxide inside the bottle, before drinking champagne, it is desirable to cool to about 6-8 ° C. After that, gently opening the bottle will be much easier.
Also, when opening, it is desirable to keep the bottle at an angle of about 45 °, it also reduces the likelihood of a shot.
How to open champagne, if the plug is broken
What what, and open champagne in a hussar way, that is, cutting the neck of the bottle with a blade of cold steel, not worth it. At the very least, this can cause the bottle to break, and in some cases - to cause serious injury from broken glass from a bottle explosion.
The best option in this case is to open the champagne with a corkscrew.
In some cases, this option may not help, then you have to open the bottle with a screw. This requires a self-tapping screw on the tree at least long 100 mm, appropriate size screwdriver and pliers. Screw the screw into the remnants of the plug, then remove it with pliers.
How and what to close an open bottle of champagne
As you know, open champagne "exhales" very quickly, losing flavor and aroma. If there is still wine left in the bottle after the holiday, you need to know, than to close an open bottle of champagne.
The surest way to close a bottle of champagne is to use plastic plugs from cheap versions of this drink. The central part of the plug after removal is not deformed, which makes it possible to reuse.
You can also close the champagne back with special plastic plugs to stop the wine, sold in specialty stores.
Quite dubious, but a known way to close champagne is to use a spoon. In this case, a spoon (preferably a silver dining room) inserted by cuttings into the neck of the bottle. Although it seems absurd, but for several days (according to a number of reviews - up to one week) champagne retains carbon dioxide and does not oxidize wine.
Another option, close an open bottle of champagne, is to take his cork and make it a "brush" cut to allow you to re-insert it into the bottle, tm samytsm close it. That's about it:
