Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz dine with a 1811 Château d'Yquem

The couple has shared photos on social media of themselves enjoying dinner, with the images showing a 1811 vintage of the legendary Sauternes wine, said to be worth around £75,000 per bottle.

Aspiring chef Brooklyn Beckham and wife Nicola Peltz took to Instagram yesterday (28 January) to document a date night, where the bottle on the table was definitely not the house white.

The pair initially posted photos of themselves having dinner in a restaurant with their fluffy white dog Lamb, during which they appeared to drink a bottle of red wine. The couple, which married in a lavish ceremony in 2022, then shared images of two bottles of Château d’Yquem, shrouded in dust, in what appears to be the restaurant cellar. The bottle labels indicate that one was the extremely rare 1811 vintage while the other was the 1831.

Comet vintage

The 1811 is a year often described as the “comet vintage,” due to the comet that was spotted just before Château d’Yquem began its harvest. Only 10 bottles of this particular vintage are thought to exist worldwide.

It’s likely the Beckham-Peltzes were dining at The Stonehouse restaurant in California, which as db previously reported, has managed to acquire the biggest collection of Château d’Yquem wines in the world. The Santa Barbara eatery, located inside San Ysidro Ranch, has more than 138 vintages of the famous Sauternes, sourced directly from France to avoid the risk of counterfeits, according to the restaurant’s wine director Tristan Pitre.

Beckham and Peltz are not the only celebrities with a penchant for the wine. Gregg Popovich, the coach for NBA team San Antonio Spurs is said to be obsessed with Château d’Yquem, with the French producer having gifted him a bottle of the 1949 vintage (the same year Popovich was born) for his birthday following years of loyal custom.

Extraordinary resilience at auction

According to iDealwine, Château d’Yquem “remains in a category of its own.”

“With the ’world’s greatest white wine’ as a moniker, the estate’s reputation is the result of centuries of uncompromising standards,” iDealwine told db. “From the meticulous care of its 150 individual vineyard plots to harvests conducted in multiple passes (seven in the famously selective 1997 vintage), everything at Yquem is designed to aid longevity. The late Alexandre de Lur-Saluces, custodian and winemaker Yquem for 36 years, captured this philosophy succinctly: one vine, one glass of wine.”

The fine wine auctioneer added that this approach “has translated into extraordinary resilience at auction.”

In March last year a bottle of 1945 Yquem sold for €4,357 via iDealwine, while only this month (January 2026) a second bottle of the same vintage fetched €3,192.

Brooklyn Beckham shared a glimpse into his dizzyingly expensive wine cellar in a separate post on social media in 2023. His personal collection includes a 2003 Château Mouton Rothschild, a Grand Vin Château Latour 1989, a Petrus 2015, and a Petrus 1979, the combined four bottles thought to be worth in excess of £15,000.

Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz dine with a 1811 Château d’Yquem

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