Vintage prewar wines sell for £50,000

The wines, which had been kept hidden by Channel Islands’ wine and spirit merchant Bucktrout & Co in a secret chamber during the German occupation, were sold by UK auctioneer Bonhams.

The selection of hidden wartime wines included 1920s bottles of Latour, Margaux, Mouton Rothschild and Ausone, as well as Chateaux Haut-Brion and Cheval-Blanc from the 1940s and assorted bottles of port from the turn of the 19th century.