" care, selected to match his personal taste. Champagne bottles weren’t just opened, they were “sabered,” a dramatic and theatrical process in which the force of a saber, slid along the body of the bottle toward the neck, snaps the collar from the neck of the bottle, leaving the cork intact but the bottle open. "

― Robert M. Edsel , The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History