How to Pop a Champagne Bottle or Sparkling Wine

"I don’t know about you but for me, sparkling wine or champagne makes any occasion feel more like a celebration. A lot of people feel nervous about opening champagne or sparkling wine though. It seems that everyone has a story of a cork exploding across a room and narrowly missing hitting someone. So I am bringing you How to Pop a Champagne Bottle or Sparkling Wine. I have a friend whose only memory of a family gathering when she was small is of a cork being popped off the bottle and flying across the dining room. It went traveling, first bouncing off a wall and then landing next to her grandparents’ small dog who was not impressed."