Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes shelters the valley's northern part: the right- and left-bank crus between Vienne and Valence — Côte-Rôtie, Condrieu, Saint-Joseph, Cornas, Crozes-Hermitage — spread over four departments (Rhône, Loire, Ardèche, Drôme).
This regional page orders the search: each department has its market and its dedicated page, from the unattainable terraces of Ampuis to the mechanisable Chassis plateaus.
The Rhône and the Loire share Côte-Rôtie and Condrieu: micro-markets, maximum values. The Ardèche lines up Saint-Joseph, Cornas and Saint-Péray, plus a vast accessible south. The Drôme combines the Hermitage hill, the Crozes and its Provençal half.
The northern market's guiding thread: slope. Hand-worked terraces concentrate value and scarcity; the few mechanisable sectors (Chassis, south-Ardèche plateaus) offer the entry tickets.
The DVF registry of notarised sales makes it possible to follow vine prices in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes over recent seasons:
Year | Sales | Average price (€/ha) | Median price (€/ha) |
2020* | 132 | 59,990 | 30,945 |
2021 | 264 | 86,164 | 40,061 |
2022 | 315 | 76,658 | 29,741 |
2023 | 257 | 72,631 | 39,251 |
2024 | 253 | 54,133 | 28,526 |
2025 | 230 | 52,627 | 24,414 |
Source: French DVF land registry, vine sales. *2020: second half only.
From one full year to the next (2021 → 2025), the median price fell (-39%).
All the national references sit in our observatory: vineyard prices in France.
Pick your department for detailed benchmarks and listings — Ardèche and Drôme for farming projects, Rhône and Loire for patrimonial plots.
See the Rhône Valley vineyard, the Ardèche, the Drôme, the Rhône and Beaujolais.
