A Florida restaurant is to put a bottle of fine and rare Bordeaux valued at $30,000 (£19,400) on its wine list.

Bern's Steakhouse in Tampa Bay houses the largest wine collection of any restaurant in the world, with more than 500,000 bottles in storage.

Such is the size of the cellar that treasured bottles can get lost. Sommelier Eric Renaud recently found a 1947 Chateau Latour hidden away behind some other vintages.

"It looked like someone had hid it there a long time ago. The second I saw it, I almost had a heart attack," he told the St Petersburg Times.

The Bordeaux will be the centrepiece of Bern's next wine list, although anyone buying the bottle will have to enjoy it there and then - the venue is not licensed to allow alcohol bought there to be consumed off the premises.

The vintage of 1947 was particularly good for Bordeaux, illustrated by the fact that a 1947 Cheval Blanc recently broke the world record price for a single bottle of wine at auction.

An unnamed investor paid $304,000 (£191,000) for the six-litre bottle at Christie's in New York.