A light straw color with really nice even legs and tears that take their time on the glass. The aroma is sweet cooked agave, hint of yeast, cinnamon, and a bit of ethanol and brine. The flavor has quite a bit going on and is really good! Nice mouthfeel with cooked agave at the forefront of course. I can definitely taste the ale (yeast & malt) but I also pick up notes from the other barrels, both sweet and wood. Surprisingly long peppery finish with a bit of bitterness that I have to believe comes from the hops. I love it!

My new favorite reposado! Rich aroma full of agave, ripe fruits, butter, vanilla, cinnamon and wheaty beer. The taste is similar with cooked agave, caramel, toffee, black pepper, pear, apricot and light cider. The texture is full and creamy with a small amount of sourness from the beer barrels. The finish is a bit more sour, and has stronger notes of vanilla, toffee and oak. This is great tequila that I was lucky enough to be able to find the last bottle of at my local liquor store. I suggest everyone try and do the same because this stuff is special.

Fortaleza Winter Blend 2020 The nose is great! I can smell the American and French oak barrels while still detecting the beer barrel. It’s a very complex nose for a Reposado. I get the sweetness from the French Oak and the musty whiskey note from American Oak and then a sourness from the beer barrel. Don’t worry the cooked agave still punches through. I taste sweet agave and then I get some nice pepper on the mid-palette thanks to the higher ABV. On the back end comes the French oak sweetness that turns to a dry note thanks to the beer barrel. There’s also some sourness that dances around on the finish. This is an excellent reposado! Thank you Fortaleza!

I love it a lot, and I love the profile od the triple barreling. I prefer it by a hair over the 2019

Nose is malted agave, a bit of yeast and cider. Oak notes on entry along with cider, creamy agave custard and a serious mid tongue buzz from the 46 %. Finish is well balanced and has natural sweetness that fades to some citrus and tart notes from the beer barrel finishing.

Nose: Cider is the first thing that presents, it not overwhelming just leads the way, some cinnamon, light agave and butterscotch, minerals, dried cherry, lots of orange blossoms and wet leather Flavor: Agave sweetness, cider, cherry, ripe pear, and white pepper, has a nice creamy mouth feel Finish: Long, Starts with some vanilla, the wet leather make an appearance, and ends with some white pepper

Nose: 2020 Winter Blend’s beer cask lineage shows up immediately upon pouring, with a sparking cider aroma and a sweet malty note. There are a myriad of backup aromas. Cinnamon, orange blossoms, almond paste, candied citron, and a dash of butterscotch. Also a whiff of sharp minerals and damp earth. A fresh feel about this one. Flavor: Zingy barrel spice and white pepper marrying nicely with ripe round fruitiness, and butterscotch/toffee undercurrents. Dried fruits, apricot and cherry?, peeking through. The finish brings additional vanilla whipped cream, citrus, molasses and some leather to the show.

Aromas of vanilla, butterscotch, apricot, cinnamon and slight cider from the beer barrel. Nice, think mouthfeel with cooked agave, slight molasses and effervescent finish from cider note.

Nose is butterscotch hard candies. Agave and slight wood. Taste is semi sweet salty almost sour agave. Mild butterscotch with a hint of vanilla. Finish is warm and long. Tasted alone side the 2019. I’m torn a lot of ppl who’s taste I trust like the 2019 better. Tonight I think I’m liking the 2020 just slightly better.

VERY citrusy, like the white centre of an orange. Can definitely taste the English ale barrels

Medicinal Herbaceous Menthol Very creamy Very interesting tasty treat

Wow, the oak, fruit, agave, yeast, citrus flowery bouquet aroma just blows you away. Then, the smooth payoff of the wood and agave, woof! Still strength is always my preference over the regular Blanco (though I'd never kick the regular out of bed). Beer flavor comes through in the silky finish and I just want to sit and sniff my empty glass as long as is wafts. What a pleasing experience! Top of the food chain even though I'm partial to Fortaleza in the first place.

Wow, this is special and the hype is true. So many complex and changing tastes and smells . So hard to explain, another way exceptional offering from Fortaleza . Enjoy it if you can . Don’t just stare at those bottles, drink up, life’s short ! Salud !

Orange blossom wheat grass

Not on 2019 winter blend level but still very good. 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

Great nose of cooked agave, butterscotch, wood and a touch of vanilla. Cooked agave flavor with some sour barrel influance. A long balanced taste with surprisingly little bite for a 46% abv. I personally enjoy Fotaleza's standard reposado more.

Uniqueness. Not a typical repo. The flavors balance. I recommend the review by Bryce Taylor. A must taste to expand the pallet. A great product from this distillery. Find it and enjoy it.

Vanilla, citrus, agave, beer. Nice feel. Good finish. Very good

It’s excellent. I enjoyed the 2019 Winter Blend more. I didn’t love the finish. If I’m honest I enjoy stock Fortaleza more and so the Value and Finish scores are what bring my overall rating down a bit. I understand why we pay up for special releases, but sometimes I’m not sure it’s worth the effort and expense vs every day fantastic product like Fortaleza’s stock bottles.

Really like this years blend, a little lighter and less spice than the 19, Showing more pleasant agave flavors. Great repo blended from three different barrels

Agave taste with a great finish!

The aroma and taste are great. One of the best tastes and finish I have ever experienced. Well worth it

There’s so much going on in this tequila. Cooked agave,vanilla, oak. The taste is great agave, vanilla and I get a slight fruitiness with a medium heat.

aroma: smells strongly of agave, hint of citrus, some oak, some sort of spice flavor: so much heat, spice, some smoke, like BBQ agave finish: lingers, maintains a tingle. retains a little heat and agave

Aroma: Cooked agave. French Oak. Red Fruit. Smoke Flavor: Fresh and Cooked agave. Heat whole mouth. Oak. Smoke. Leather. Spice. Finish: Cooked agave sweetness. Wood.