Here is a classic wine from Umbria, one that opened many doors for the region when the wine was first presented decades ago. The 2015 Campoleone is a blend of equal parts Sangiovese and Merlot, all rigorously aged in French barrique. This warm and sunny vintage has shaped a beautifully generous and opulent red wine that is soft, succulent and driven by flavors of purple fruit and sweet spice. If the brand name Lamborghini conjures up any one particular feeling or emotion, it would be racy. Campoleone has racy in spades. Some 30,000 bottles were made.

Made with equal parts Merlot and Sangiovese, the 2013 Campoleone comes across as soft, luscious and delicious. Compared to past editions of this benchmark wine from Umbria, this expression feels slightly more streamlined and tightly knit. That emphasis on elegance is a sign of the times, for sure, even for a wine like this that once embodied the extra concentration and exuberance of Italian wines made in the 1990s and the first decade of the new millennium.

The 2010 Campoleone is the best I have tasted thus far. This blended Umbrian red (50-50 Sangiovese and Merlot) opens with an inky black color and extreme elegance that hits at the very core. Shapely fruit tones of blackberry and dried cherry are enhanced by balsam herb, licorice, sweet spice, tobacco, forest floor and flower potpourri. The close is soft, long lasting and ripe. I look forward to revisiting this wine in six or seven years when it has completed its evolution. Drink: 2015-2024. Importer: Banville & Jones Wine Merchants, www.banvilleandjoneswinemerchants.com

The estate's flagship, the 2007 Campoleone is a blend of Sangiovese and Merlot that was aged for 12 months in French oak barrels. The 2007 is a relatively understated Campoleone layered with ripe red fruit, flowers, sweet spices, all of which come together on a medium-bodied frame. A round, sensual finish rounds things out. Anticipated maturity: 2015-2025. Importer: Banville & Jones Wine Merchants, New York, NY; tel. (212) 268-0906