Information rapidly went viral after Hawksmoor mentioned in Might 2019 that it had mistakenly served a bottle of legendary Bordeaux wine Le Pin 2001, listed at £4,500 on the menu, to visitors.
Writing on Twitter, now X, Hawksmoor Manchester mentioned it hoped the client loved their night. It added to the employees member concerned, ‘One-off errors occur and we love you anyway.’
Six years later, Hawksmoor cofounder Will Beckett has instructed the The Go To Meals Podcast that he determined to jot down the social media put up after employees alerted him to the incident by textual content message in a single day.
Beckett mentioned the employees member concerned had come right down to Hawksmoor Manchester from the Edinburgh department to achieve expertise for a few weeks.
Two guys ordered a ‘spendy’ bottle of Bordeaux listed at greater than £200, Beckett defined, however the employees member by accident picked up the £4,500 Le Pin 2001 within the cellar.
Again on the desk, the employees member opened the wine, checked it with the shoppers, poured the contents after which ‘goes about her enterprise’, Beckett recalled.
’[After] about an hour, [the diners ask] can we have now one other bottle of that?’, he mentioned. However, on going again to the cellar, the employees member thought it was odd that she couldn’t see one other bottle of the wine.
‘I feel at that second, she’s like, “oh my God…I’ve given them a bottle of Le Pin 2001,’ Beckett mentioned, including that she managed to ‘model it out’ by explaining that the wine was now out of inventory.
It wasn’t clear what the visitors ordered subsequent, however it might have been a tough act to comply with. It is a high classic from one of the famend names in Pomerol on Bordeaux’s Proper Financial institution.
Wine critic Jane Anson awarded an ideal 100-point rating to Le Pin 2001 throughout her time as Decanter’s Bordeaux correspondent.
Its common UK retail worth was round £3,400 per bottle in April 2025, in line with Wine-Searcher.
Beckett’s determination to publicise the incident was rapidly seized upon by information retailers.
It additionally led to Hawksmoor Manchester getting a lot busier for a few weeks afterwards, greater than recouping the cash misplaced on the wine, he defined.
In September 2019, Hawksmoor mentioned it had promoted the employees member concerned to a common supervisor place.
