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If you're a lover of the fizzy nectar of the gods more commonly known as champagne, brace yourself for some serious bubble envy.

Divers have found what is purported to be the world's oldest drinkable champagne in a shipwreck on the Baltic seabed.

30 bottles of champagne, believed to have been bottled earlier than 1790, were discovered by divers while they were exploring the wreck.

When they opened one of the bottles, they found that the champagne had been preserved and could still be drunk.

Diver Christian Ekstrom brought the bottle up to the surface. He told Reuters: "It was fantastic. It had a very sweet taste, you could taste oak and it had a very strong tobacco smell. And there were very small bubbles."

The bottles are estimated to have been produced by Clicquot (now called Veuve Clicquot) at some time between 1782 and 1788. The company first began making champagne in 1772 but production was affected by the French Revolution, which begain in 1789.

Currently, the oldest champagne is a bottle of Perrier-Jouet which was made in 1825.

Experts have estimated that the bottles could sell for up to £40,000 each - meaning the remaning 29 bottles could sell for over a million pounds in total.

Oligarchs keen to flash their cash before the bottles go on sale should head to the Moscow Ritz-Carlton, which has some 1907 Heidsieck champagne on the menu for a mere £163,000 per bottle.