La Rosa Reposado is AsomBroso’s ‘new age’ reposado and represents the next generation of ultra-premium tequlia. True to the original AsomBroso tequila-making recipe and imbued with a reddish hue, La Rosa gets its coloration and unique taste from aging at least three months in a French oak barrel previously used to age a vintage Bordeaux wine. The bottle itself is hand-blown, and the basic shape is patterned after an 18th century bottle found in a recently-renovated European castle. So saying this is fancy tequila would be an understatement.
La Rosa has many awards for its “distinct” flavor, but to be honest, I don’t see why. It has a very bitter, burning, and rough tequila taste. It burns the mouth as you swallow, but it’s quickly soothed by a cool, smooth, and sweet aftertaste that is actually very similar to that of a red wine. It has a really great taste, but it’s not good enough to make it worth buying over far cheaper and equally or even more tasty tequilas. It really tastes a lot like someone just dropped a shot of red wine into a bottle of average tequila. If La Rosa were a woman, she would be a beautiful, cool, but high-maintenance chick that everyone knows is going to take all of your money when she leaves you. Let’s just say, that’s not what you really want.
When La Rosa is mixed, it all falls apart. Mixed, it is the equivalent to any $19 dollar bottle of tequila on the shelf. The taste just doesn’t stand apart like it should. It’s a rather huge letdown. It looks like that great girl of yours is just a one trick pony, and the one trick isn’t all that great.
I can’t talk about this tequila without mentioning its bottle. This is one fancy piece of art. It’s a piece of hand-blown glass that is really unique. It shares an odd resemblance of a certain male body part. For some reason though, they choose to make the cap of the bottle out of cheap plastic. And even worse, it keeps falling off the bottle. It doesn’t even stay in place, making it incredibly easy to lose. It really devalues the whole bottle.
La Rosa will give you that alcohol energizing that you really need at the beginning of the night. It’s 80-proof, so I wouldn’t expect anything less. But let’s remember it is tequila. It doesn’t pull off anything that cheaper tequila couldn’t, but it really doesn’t give you a horrible hangover the next day. The worst I had to deal with was a little cotton-mouth. After drinking, you have to pretty much expect to wake up with that anyway, so you can’t really knock AsomBroso La Rosa Reposado for that.
Here’s the major problem with La Rosa Resposado: it costs $55. It’s just not that good. It tastes like $20 tequila. I guess they feel the bottle is worth $40. The problem is that I’m an alcoholic, not a bottle collector. The bottle can be plastic and shaped like anything as long as the booze is good. Unfortunately, this booze isn’t too good. Why bother with a high-maintenance chick when you can get three less attractive but harder working women instead?
I’m going to have to say unless you’re really…ahhh, well I can’t think of any good reason to buy this. The tequila is sub-par, and the bottle has a cheap plastic cap. It is flawed all over and way overpriced. Cabo Wabo Reposado or Jose Cuervo Black Medallion would be a much better buy for the value.
Sipability - 6.0
Mixability - 6.0
Drunkability - 6.5
Hangover-ability - 7.0
Bang for the Buck - 2.5
Chick-appeal - 3.0
Overall - 6.5 
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i thought this had a good flavor….but overpriced for sure.
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