Aussie hero Nedd Brockmann leads the champagne celebrations at the Melbourne Cup after running almost 4000km across the country in just 47 days to help the homeless
- Nedd Brockmann leads the champagne celebrations at the Melbourne Cup
- Brockmann raised over $1.4 million for homeless running across the country
- Brockmann performed the iconic ‘tap tap’ moment and kicked off celebrations
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Tradie larrikin Nedd Brockmann who raised over $1.4 million for the homeless after running from Cottesloe to Bondi Beach has kicked off champagne celebrations at the Melbourne Cup today.
Champagne is the traditional drink of choice at the Melbourne Cup, with Mumm Champagnes planning to serve more than 2700 bottles in it’s marquee across the week.
Tradie larrikin Nedd Brockmann (pictured) who raised over $1.4 million for the homeless after running from Cottesloe to Bondi Beach has kicked off champagne celebrations at the Melbourne Cup today
Champagne is the traditional drink of choice at the Melbourne Cup, with Mumm Champagnes planning to serve more than 2700 bottles in it’s marquee across the week
Brockmann, who recently won a legion of fans after embarking on an incredible 3952km across Australia, performed the iconic ‘tap tap’ moment – tapping the neck of a Mumm three-litre jeroboam with a sabre, which produced a cascading fountain of flowing Champagne.
Mumm is a proud partner of the Melbourne Cup Carnival and this year had to move it’s tap-tap stunt inside the marquee because of the weather.
Birdcage chef de daves Laurent Fresnet who has travelled from France to attend the event says the brand will no longer practice sabrage – a traditional technique where bottles are opened by cutting along the neck with a saber.
It’s been two weeks since Brockmann – a 23-year-old tradie who hails from Forbes and now lives in Sydney’s east – completed the 47-day journey on foot from Perth
‘I broke a bottle, the bottle broke in front of me and the glass [landed on] people so I said, ‘It’s finished, we have to stop sabrage’,’ Fresnet told The Age.
‘We shake the bottle now.’
Australia is the sixth-largest consumer of the sparkling wine in the world and Fresnet says since the pandemic people are drinking more of it.
It’s been two weeks since Brockmann – a 23-year-old tradie who hails from Forbes and now lives in Sydney’s east – completed the 47-day journey on foot from Perth.
Delta Goodrem is pictured with Nedd Brockmann at the event
The larrikin with a blond mullet covered more than 80 kilometres a day on average and arrived home to the cheers of thousands of adoring people.
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