World's oldest bubbly?

Divers in the Baltic Sea have found a number of bottles of champagne which are awaiting confirmation as the oldest drinkable bottled bubbly, believed to be from the late 1700s. While the Scandanavian ocean floor may be an odd wine cellar, it meets (albeit in overabundance) the criteria for aging. A number of the bottles are expected to hit the auction block.

For more about very old wines and auctions, see The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine, by Benjamin Wallace, a story following in parallel both how wine left in France by Thomas Jefferson survived the revolutions and how its record-breaking public auction in London was prepared.