230-Year-Old Drinkable Bottles of Veuve Found on Ocean Floor

You want something really old to drink? Divers have discovered a cache of champagne, most likely Clicquot (now called Veuve Clicquot), perfectly preserved on the Baltic seabed. There are 30 bottles of the stuff, and the divers already cracked one open and say it's delicious. Each bottle is likely to fetch $69,000 or more at auction.

One of the dudes who tasted says, "It had a very sweet taste, you could taste oak and it had a very strong tobacco smell. And there were very small bubbles."

Experts are testing it and they believe the champagne dates to between 1782 and 1788, and was likely part of a consignment sent by King Louis XVI to the Russian Imperial Court. Veuve Clicquot apparently has records dating back to the 1780s, and they've got a record of a delivery to the Russian Court that never arrived. [BBC]