La Mozza, Maremma Toscana Rosso, “Aragone”

Today’s wine is a wholly unique kind of “super-Tuscan,” in that it isn’t the type of super-Tuscan most of us know or understand. Most of the iconic wines in this admittedly amorphous category are inspired by Bordeaux, but this one marches to a different drumbeat.Along the Tuscan coast especially, where legendary wines such as “Sassicaia” and “Ornellaia” were born, grapes such as Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot have established as strong a foothold as native varieties. But that’s recent history. At Poggio La Mozza, located near Grosseto in southwest Tuscany, they went back much further in search of inspiration: to the 1500s, and the Spanish Aragon Dynasty, which once controlled this region. “Aragone” is named for those Aragons, who maintained a series of garrisons along the Tuscan coast, including the star-shaped Forte Stella in Porto Ercole, which gets a graphic nod on the label. Comprised of Tuscany’s signature Sangiovese with healthy percentages of Syrah, Alicante, and Carignan, today’