2024 Saint Cosme Cotes du Rhone 750 ml

When it comes to value, Saint Cosme’s Côtes-du-Rhône deserves its own tier.

Wine Spectator has named it one of their Top 10 Values of the Year—and it’s BY FAR our top seller in the Côtes-du-Rhône category over the last five years. That kind of track record doesn’t happen by accident.

The historic 100-point estate, which Vinous ranks “among the Rhône Valley’s elite producers,” crafts coveted wines that often command triple-digit prices. It’s “unquestionably one of the reference point estates…in the entire southern Rhône Valley,” according to Rhône expert Jeb Dunnuck. Wine Advocate has put two of their wines at the 100-point pinnacle and three bottles have made it onto Wine Spectator’s Top 100 list.

The 2024 Côtes-du-Rhône is a deep ruby with a vivid crimson edge, cracking with aromas of black cherry, raspberry preserve, licorice, and cracked pepper, lifted by a wild herbal note that gives it real character. Fresh, energetic, and quietly complex—remarkable for a bottle at this price point.

Louis Barruol is the 14th-generation winemaker at Saint Cosme, and his bone-deep sense of terroir shows. Wine Spectator has hailed him as “The Genius of Gigondas,” and his single-vineyard bottles often cost well over $100, but his Côtes-du-Rhône—a masterclass in Syrah—also shows the magic his deft hand can work.

When Barruol, a studious renaissance man, isn’t making wine, he’s practicing his cello or playing on a local rugby squad, but he still found time to convert his estate to biodynamics in 2010, taking centuries of accumulated vineyard expertise to its apex.