With champagne there is no problem, just remove that safety wire tha holds the cork,shake the botle , POP!! FSSSSS!! there you go .

The situation gets more critic if instead of Dom Perignon you have several bottles of Sicilian" Duca di Salaparruta" or some Chilean Merlot of "Santa Rosa Del Peral".

Here even a run-of -the-mill Leatherman ( NOT the Flare) can help, by carefully using one of it's tools to carve away the cork or just to push it into the bottle ( been there...)


Cheers anyway and best wishes for 2003 A.C.