My son has a busy day taking the ACT and then sports training, and my wife is accompanying him. They had to leave early, so I got up at 5:15 and made a nice breakfast to send them on their way. They left a 6:30am, and I was in the kitchen washing the dishes I had just used. Standing at the sink, I overlook the living room, and to my right is a sliding glass door opening to our patio and the conservation area (swamp) behind us. All of the sudden, I hear a loud Bang! and the sound of shattering glass. Caught off guard, I had to orient myself quickly, but ran to get a conveniently located gun. Just then, my wife calls to remind me of something or other, I had to tell her to get off the phone so I could call 911, to report an attempted home entry, or vandalization of my window(s). Before I call 911, I checked out the slider just to be sure that it was what was broken. That is when I noticed the mess. We have a wine rack next to the sliders and my bride had bought a bottle of champagne for Valentine's Day. It had exploded! Glass and champagne everywhere, and no sign of a break in my outside windows or exterior wall. Not sure what happened, must have been a flaw in the glass, or it got knicked or micro-crack in transit. Glad I could see the slider when it happened so I knew someone wasn't immediately entering. Had it happened when I was asleep, my adrenaline level would have been a lot higher! So much for going back to sleep.

Days that begin like that there is no need for coffee as adrenaline leaves you wired

I did a similar thing the other day. Woke up to a loud bang like a door slamming in the middle of the night (at least for me lol. Turned out to be a rocket launch down at the Cape. I did a full perimeter search with my son because it woke him up as well.

Your pulse should return to normal in about a week.
Glad it was nothing serious though it is a heck of a mess.

Your wife's adrenaline probably spiked too when she heard you say "911".

Any early Valentines Day explosion. That's exciting.

Gives 'Popping open a bottle of champagne' a whole new meaning!

Wow, that would suck, never heard of that happening. The Mrs. is a Champagne, Cava and Prosecco snob so we have several bottles, YIKES!

It 'can' and does happen, though typically occurs at the winery while on the shelf aging. In fact, while visiting a Winery in upstate New York, info on this was part of the tasting/tour presentation.

Not Champagne related, but back in the '70s when carbonated soda was packaged in 64oz. glass bottles, my grandfather was rounding the end of an isle with a Pepsi display on the end cap, when such a bottle basically exploded in his face. Wrong place, wrong time...What are the odds! He was pelted with shrapnel when a 64oz bottle of Pepsi detonated, got glass in his eye(s), and a trip to the hospital as a result. Not 100% sure what we were drinking prior, but I do know we only drank RC Cola at my grandparent's house after that.