(2004) Vins de Vienne is the three-way collaboration between Yves Cuilleron, Pierre Gaillard and Franç'ois Villard. This cuvée spends 18-months in all-new oak barriques. Despite that, the dominant note on the nose is slate and schist, with a very polished, muscular briary fruit quality, though plenty of sweet blackcurrant starts to emerge. The palate is concentrated and complex, with a really sinewy, muscular quality of chewy fruit that is sweet and dense. Good purity here, as the fruit pushes through the balanced, very long finish.