As you enter, you are greeted by the site of Magnum, Methuselah and Nebuchadnezzar bottles of champagne that are surrounded by cases of cult wine and monk brewed beer. Throughout your tour of my cellar, via this blog and DamyansCellar.com, you will cross a wide variety of my worldly treasures that probably aren’t stocked at your local grocery or liquor store. Along the way, I will offer my personal experience and the expert knowledge I acquired from the locals about their homegrown specialties. Hopefully I can share with you a taste of what I believe to be the proper bottle for each and every occasion.
As
the ribbon cutting ceremony has become a familiar tradition to mark the premier
of a new business, I experienced a similar, yet much less common ceremony on the Christmas Eve of 2009. It was my first time in Belgium,
visiting what is now my family in-law with my girlfriend at the time. After an
exhausting, heavily French influenced-3 hour dinner, we stepped outside into
the brisk night. Here I stood in front of the entire family, with my now father
in-law next to me. Instead of oversized scissors, he handed me a 16” saber…and
rather than a ribbon to cut, he handed me a magnum size bottle of champagne, to cut. Sounds intimidating huh? To add a little more suspense, the little instruction of how to do this
was provided to me in broken English from my now father in-law; who I had met for
the first time the night before. After a couple seconds of mental preparation,
I slowly drew the saber back and with one swift motion across the neck, I
decapitated the head clean off, shooting it 30 feet into the star lit night.
Just like in the cartoons when a characters head is severed off and blood
fountains like a volcano, a burst of bubbles shot from the bottle’s neck. I was officially the newest addition to the Marin
family.
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Christmas
day, 2009, I was gifted two presents. One
of which was a case of the champagne, Lepreux-Penet, that I sabered the day
before. And the second, which is now framed, was a custom made Diploma of Sabrage
designed by my father in-law; complete with the cap I sabered. As I rarely celebrate Christmas, being raised Jewish and all, I can
confidently say that this was by far the coolest Christmas I have ever been a
part of.
Looking back on this introduction, or induction, it was one
that created a new solid bridge from the US to Belgium to France. So I would like to leave you here, at the beginning of my
new bridge, built exclusively of proper bottles for you and the future of
champagne, wine and beer enthusiast to enjoy! Welcome!
A guy uses an iPad to saber a bottle of champagne...cool!
Dont understand how you failed the JEPET. I like your new layout =)
ReplyDeleteHey Martin! It was nice meeting you on Tuesday, I really liked the idea of your future business and I hope you fulfill it. Thanks for asking my opinion on your business name, I really appreciate it. Have you tried laying out different font styles for your name? The reason why I say this is because certain letters don't look good with other letters in a signage/font setting. I can try to explain it a little more in person whenever you are free. I hope to hear more about your business in the future.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed your post and can't wait to read more about your conquest to opening your future business!
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