I mentioned in my story from a week ago (above) that I picked up a bottle of the Tres Agaves reposado. I recommended it to some because I remembered loving it on the few occasions I had tried it previously (and it happened to be on sale at a great price at the moment), though frankly I didn't remember exactly what it was that I liked about it so much. Well, it didn't take me very long to go through that bottle, and now that I've been reminded I thought I'd share my thoughts about it.
As I've probably mentioned in several posts here, I'm mainly a blanco guy. The thing I most love about good tequila is the very thing that makes tequila different from everything else, and that's agave. I want big, bold, bright, fruity agave flavor to jump out of the glass and slap me across the face. That particular quality of course tends to diminish with aging, so reposados tend to have less of it and anejos less still. But, resposados can be aged anywhere from 1 to 12 months, which is a very large range in tequila time, and consequently they vary widely in the degree to which they retain big juicy agave flavor: Some are more blanco-like and others more anejos-like.
So to get to the point.... Tres Agaves is a reposado for blanco lovers like me -- indeed, the best I can remember ever having. It retains all of the big bold agave flavor as their blanco (which I buy often), while smoothing out the edges just a tad and adding just enough woody character to round out the flavor profile. You can tell just by the color, which is a very pale straw color much lighter than most repos. Unlike so many repos, in which you give up some of that agave goodness in exchange for other qualities, this one is IMHO the best of both worlds.
