This has too much wood for me. I can’t get any agave at all. Leather, oak and citrus aromas. Flavor is too sweet, almost like a coffee liqueur. If you handed this to me blind, I wouldn’t recognize it as tequila.

Tobacco, leather, nutty, pitted fruit nose, but very sweet and thin in the mouth with a nutty finish. More like amaretto than a tequila.

Overly sweet like other tequila made at this distillery. Nose of cherry, honey, light vanilla, caramel, sweet whiskey, light roasted nuts and light leather. The problem was in the taste. It was very sweet with an artificial or overly sweet aftertaste. Another tequila made at the same distillery, Reserve de Don Alberto (lot 1) is far superior, not as sweet, and much more pleasing.

So, I was led in first by the nose of Compveda, which is rather pleasant: sweet and rich, with a bourbon like appeal. Then the taste – absolutely terrible. Possibly the worst tasting tequila since my teenage Cuervo Gold days. It is sickeningly sweet and artificial tasting. The taste has a chemical aspartame profile. I rinsed my mouth out afterward. One of two things is going on here: 1. The tequila is loaded with artificial flavors, colors, etc., or 2. The Tequilero doesn’t know what he’s doing, and the use of former wine barrels is giving the tequila an (extremely) off taste.

Weak nose. No complexity. Basic finish. No depth. Seems filtered. Sweetener added.