Delas Frères Côtes du Rhône Saint-Esprit 2024 White Wine

This is a white wine from the 2024 vintage, and the record does not name a grape for it. In our September 2026 checks its price ranged from $20.99 to $27.99. The origin it points to is the Rhône Valley in France, and more precisely the Côtes du Rhône appellation.

Regional guides treat the Rhône Valley as a broad French region that links hillside vineyards in the north with a much larger stretch of country in the south. Those guides are clear that a Rhône Valley reference gives the general area but not the exact spot, because the valley holds many protected appellations, Côtes du Rhône among them, each with its own boundaries, permitted grapes and rules. The north and south do not share one climate either: the southern end feels a stronger Mediterranean pull and the Mistral wind, while the long river corridor and the land around it create local differences all along the way.

We do not have a shopper rating for this bottle.

The house behind the label is an old one. Delas Frères says its Rhône Valley wine business traces to 1835 and has carried the Delas Frères name since 1924, when the brothers Henri and Florentin Delas took charge of it.

Delas's own product page fills in the blend the record leaves unnamed: this Saint-Esprit white is, in the producer's words, a precise and harmonious combination of Grenache Blanc, Viognier, Marsanne, Roussanne and Clairette, with the exact proportions changing from one vintage to the next. The producer credits the Mistral, the strong wind that blows down the Rhône Valley, with keeping the vines healthy and the finished wine fresh despite the region's hot, sunny summers. Delas also cites its own award history for this bottling, 90 points for both the 2023 and the 2022 vintages, though the page does not name the critic or publication behind those scores and offers no tasting note or score yet for the 2024 vintage on shelves now. The house's broader reputation rests elsewhere: Delas Frères built its name on single-varietal Syrah grown on the granite hillsides of the Northern Rhône, and its own pages describe Saint-Esprit's Côtes du Rhône appellation as part of the broader, Mediterranean-leaning Southern Rhône, different terrain from the steep Hermitage slopes the Delas name is best known for.

Our call: this suits a shopper who wants a place-and-blend story confirmed straight from the producer, since Delas names all five grapes behind the label and points to two straight vintages scored 90 points, even without saying by whom. Pass if you are shopping for the house's core reputation; Delas built its name on Northern Rhône Syrah, Saint-Esprit is the broader, Southern-leaning Côtes du Rhône line, no shopper rating is on our record, and no score has been published yet for the 2024 vintage in the bottle.

The Grocery Store Wine Desk · written Sep 16, 2026 from our research file for this wine. Numbers reflect our latest checks.