I was on a trip this week and stumbled across a liquor store with Fortaleza Blanco and Anejo on the shelf, around 6 bottles of each....$90 for the blanco and $175 for anejo.  I grabbed 3 bottles of blanco and passed on the anejo.    I stopped back in a couple of night later and they were sold out of both, so maybe I had lucky timing.

Grabbed a Fortaleza reposado today for $75.  Sipping on it now, and I must say that I like it very much.

Loved the Knob Creek. We started the evening drinking bourbon and I grabbed the Knob Creek finished bottle and I was able to taste the bourbon pretty well.


Now… what does the hive think of Codigo 1530 barrel strength? The local Total Wine has a barrel pick and a non barrel pick.

Has anyone here tried the Siete Leguas Siete Decadas Blanco?   It's a special edition to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Siete Leguas and is supposed to be pretty good.

https://casasieteleguas.com/en/sietedecadas/

Found a Fortaleza blanco the other day for about $60.  I really like this one too.

I like it a lot, but it’s no better than the SL blanco, or any other premium blanco out there for 50-60 less.

My go to blanco is cascahuin plata 48.  This is the gold standard for blanco imo.

It's too bad that woafp isn't here anymore, as he was great at updating this thread and adding info to educate folks on agave.    I have been working to try different additive free tequilas lately and am still enjoying the ride.  Some notes on a few I've tried over the last few months..

Siete Leguas Decadas Blanco:  This is a limited release blanco made from Criollio agave.  This is a really good blanco and the packaging is impressive.  I bought 2 bottles on an impulse buy.  It's really good, but in hindsight I probably would have only bought one bottle.  It's a 700 ml bottle instead of 750ml and was a bit pricey at $140.  I don't regret it much because it is really tasty.  I might end up gifting my 2nd bottle eventually

Lalo Blanco:   This is quickly becoming my go-to blanco.  It's readily available, reasonably priced, and really tasty.  

Lagrimas del Valle Repo El Sabino:  I had never heard of this brand, but after learning that it was from NOM 1123 (cascahuin) and seeing it at a local shop I picked up a bottle.  Its 46% abv so a little hotter than std repos.  My first sip I wasn't sure about it, but it seems to have mellowed out or I've adjusted to it.  I enjoy drinking it quite a bit.  Lots of agave forward with a clean finish.   I don't know if I'll immediately replenish this once when I finish it, but it's a solid additive-free repo and most things from NOM 1123 are really good.

Brief update, I tried a bottle of Wild Common repo - This is really good, maybe the best repo that I have had.   Wild Common is from Cascahuin NOM1123 so I expected it to be good.  Lots of agave forward, some oak but not overpowering.  I get some sweetness but nothing artificial tasting.  This one goes down very easy and I will probably keep it in rotation when I want something other than a blanco to sip on.

Post up what you think after you give it a try.   I've only had the repo, but I like it a lot.   At some point I'll try their blanco and high-proof blanco.  

I tried some of the G4 108 proof blanco and really liked it.   I've liked everything I've tried from G4, especially the Madera blancos when they come out

A coworker is going down to Monterrey and asked if I wanted anything.  I said Fortaleza.  She checked online and thinks the liquor store near where she stays has it for $50-60.  Hoping I can get her to bring 3 of each blanco and repo back for me.

If you can get any Fortaleza for $50-60, I'd stock up as much as possible

lol bourbon bros. my go to shop saves bottles for me, they don't even put fortaleza out on the shelf because of people like you.

People like me?    I don't neckbeard stuff, but if I find something that's hard to find at a fair price I will buy a few bottles and drink through them over time.   I first bought Fortaleza blanco when it was pretty easy to find and $40, and it's gone crazy over the last couple of years.

a few bottles or as much as possible? get your story straight bro. gotta have back ups for the back ups of bottles you'll never open to flex on the 'gram, right?

To me, stocking up is buying 2-3 bottles of something, so I don't get what you are going after here.   Go through this thread and give me some examples of my posts where I am trying to "flex" buying back ups for back ups of bottles I'll never open.

There are plenty of threads in GD to shit on if that's what you are looking to do.  Maybe you should go post there instead of killing this thread which has been around for years

After a 6-month relocation time-frame I finally got to dig into some Stash of liqour that I brought back from Phoenix over a year ago - actually almost 2-years now. There was a pretty prominent liquor store there that got bought out by a Convenience chain  (because of its location I think) and they were clearancing out all of their slow selling Mezcal. Which happened to be the high-end stuff. I must have walked in at the right time .  She let me have 10-bottles at 80% off. I should have bought all they had - which would have been about 25 bottles but I couldn't fit them in the car with our luggage.
Among the best were the Carreno Mezcal's. Average price was $100 - i got them for $20. All (5) expressions are fantastic. A couple others i have yet to try but the prices were crazy cheap.