All of our wines are sparkling, which of course means delightful bubbles, but also pressure, and pressure can lead to projectiles! It is important to open sparkling wine carefully, primarily to avoid that cork becoming a missile, but also to keep our fabulous wines from gushing out of the bottle.
To safely open a bottle of sparkling wine, first grab a tea towel or kitchen cloth. Twist the wire on the muselet open, but keep it in place over the cork. Cover the cork and muselet with the towel. While keeping one hand firmly around the cork and towel, hold the bottom of the bottle and gently wiggle the bottle back and forth. Twist the bottle, not the cork. You should feel the cork begin to loosen and slide out from the neck.
The goal is to extrude the cork with the faintest hiss of gas. Popping the cork from the bottle is both dangerous, and bad for the quality of the wine, as it leads to a lot of the bubbles leaving the wine at once making it go flat faster.
Never use anything other than your hands to remove a cork. Bringing a tool into the effort may cause the bottle to crack, or even explode.