TWO bottles of wine found among a stash hidden from the Germans during the Occupation sold for £1,150 at auction yesterday.

A Bonhams sale which featured a large selection of rare wines from Bucktrout’s reached a total of £50,000.

Two 1934 bottles of Chateau d’Yqeum and three of Chateau Haut-Brion from 1945 alone reached over £1,000.

The wines were hidden in the former Bucktrout’s High Street shop in a storeroom, which was blocked up with junk.

These had been brought over by wine tasters from France as they were of particularly good standard.

After the war the wines were dug out and put on display in the director’s cellar.

When Bucktrout’s was purchased by the Liberation Group and moved to new premises, the wines were put up for auction as there was nowhere to display them properly.

The sale of the wines had exceeded expectations with them originally anticipated to reach around £40,000.