Southern Rhône vintage 2024 – an overview

Alistair Cooper MW

Monday 8 December 2025 • 2 min read

Yields are down but pleasure is up in 2024, with ‘drinkability’ the key word. Above, a wintry view Château de Beaucastel’s vineyards. See this guide to our coverage of Rhône 2024.

Vintage 2024 in the southern Rhone was not quite as dramatic as it was in the north, but there are similarities.

Vintage 2024 – the weather

The year in the southern Rhône began with a dry and cold spell, which was then followed by warm but wet weather. As a result the region saw a precocious budburst in April. But frost hit some parts of the Luberon, Ventoux...

Member

$135

/year

Save over 15% annually

Ideal for wine enthusiasts

Access 285,514 wine reviews & 15,806 articles
Access The Oxford Companion to Wine & The World Atlas of Wine

Pay with

Gift this membership

Inner Circle

$249

/year

Ideal for collectors

Access 285,514 wine reviews & 15,806 articles
Access The Oxford Companion to Wine & The World Atlas of Wine
Early access to the latest wine reviews & articles, 48 hours in advance

Pay with

See all available plans

Professional

$299

/year

For individual wine professionals

Access 285,514 wine reviews & 15,806 articles
Access The Oxford Companion to Wine & The World Atlas of Wine
Early access to the latest wine reviews & articles, 48 hours in advance
Commercial use of up to 25 wine reviews & scores for marketing

Pay with

Gift this membership

Business

$399

/year

For companies in the wine trade

Access 285,514 wine reviews & 15,806 articles
Access The Oxford Companion to Wine & The World Atlas of Wine
Early access to the latest wine reviews & articles, 48 hours in advance
Commercial use of up to 250 wine reviews & scores for marketing

Number of seats:

Pay with

See all available plans

More Inside information

Front cover of the Radio Times magazine featuring Jancis Robinson

Inside information

The Jancis Robinson Story, episode 5 – yielding

The fifth of a new seven-part podcast series giving the definitive story of Jancis’s life and career so far. For...

bidding during the 2025 Hospices de Beaune wine auction

Inside information

Hospices de Beaune wine auction 2025

A look back – and forward – at the world’s oldest wine charity auction, from a former bidder. On Sunday...

UK newspaper listing including The Wine Programme from 1983

Inside information

The Jancis Robinson Story, episode 4 – fruiting

The fourth of a new seven-part podcast series giving the definitive story of Jancis’s life and career so far. For...

Inside information

Brunello vintage 2021 – new reference points for Montalcino

Montalcino has finally produced a map of its vineyards but 2021 reveals the producers that triumph irrespective of geography. Such...

More from JancisRobinson.com

Tasting articles

Rhône 2024 – Châteauneuf-du-Pape

Plenty of drinking pleasure on offer in 2024 – and likely without a long wait. The team at Clos du...

Nick on restaurants

Poon's – now of Somerset House

A daughter revives memories of her parents’ much-loved Chinese restaurants. The surname Poon has long associations with the world of...

RBJR01_Richard Brendon_Jancis Robinson Collection_glassware with cheese

Free for all

Gifts for the wine-obsessed

What do you get the wine lover who already has everything? Membership of JancisRobinson.com of course! (And especially now, when...

Free for all

Red wines for the 2025 festive season

A wide range of delicious reds for drinking and sharing over the holidays. A very much shorter version of this...

Karl and Alex Fritsch in winery; photo by Julius_Hirtzberger.jpg

Wines of the week

Fritsch Roter Veltliner 2024 Wagram

A rare Austrian variety revived and worthy of a place at the table. From €13.15, £20.10, $24.19. It was pouring...

Tasting articles

Oregon enters its bubble era

The fine sparkling-wine producers of Oregon are getting organised. Above, Lytle-Barnett’s Windfall vineyard in the Eola-Amity Hills, Oregon (credit: Lester...