TN: 2004 Lamborghini Campoleone

This wine is a sangio/merlot blend from Umbria. Still fairly dark with still red edges, the nose opened over a half hour to show some nice forest floor/mushroomy notes that added to the complexity. Clean medium length finish. I'd say this is at peak now but will hold for awhile. The only thing I might criticize is the amount of French oak used - it shifts the wine from being obviously Italian toward the international style and could make it interesting to identify in a blind tasting.

After that we pulled the part bottle of 1993 Ch. de Beaucastel CNduP Vielles Vignes Roussanne out of the fridge where it had sat for a week since my last tasting lunch - it was still excellent (amazingly).

I had a couple of bottles of this wine, but finished my last bottle in 2016. I had similar notes on the wine, a little modern, but not over the top. Good to hear it's still hanging in there.