Fortaleza Reposado Winter Blend 2020

Easily one of my favorite tequilas. I’ll be sad when it’s done

Neat. Color is a light straw with long legs in the glass. Aroma is unique with cooked agave, caramel green apple, citrus, oak, vanilla. Taste is cooked agave sweet, fruits and citrus with black pepper and cinnamon and slight oak, caramel, vanilla, cinnamon, with hints of barley malt, hops, cocoa powder. Finish is long, sweet with vanilla, black pepper and cinnamon, oak tannins, and very slight hops. I really enjoyed this one. More bright than the 2019 blend with he apples, citrus, and hops and less wood influence. Must try for blanco lovers that want to try a little more wood complexity without sacrificing the agave

Delicious stuff though not on 2019 winter blend level as while both are delicious and completely different from each other the 2019 one had a unique cognac desserts and chocolatey like flavor profile. Nose: Cooked Agave, Hops, Vanilla, Milk Chocolate, Bananas, Coconut, Pineapples, Guava, Passion Fruit, Coffee Palate: Guava, Cinnamon, Milk Chocolate, Cooked Agave, Vanilla, Honey, Bananas, Oranges, Cherries, Grass, Spearmint, Anise Finish: Vanilla, Bananas, Honey, Coconut, Milk Chocolate

Very unique and tasty. Earthy spicy agave flavors with some unique layers added from the French oak and the beer barrel adds a rounded sweetness

Taste is super unique for a repo. I think the beer barrels rounded and sweetened the body. Still has good spice and a bit of heat in the chest after a drink. Even with the heat it’s very smooth and tasty