Falstaff, the Austria based wine and spirits publication, awarded 1800 Tequila Reposado 93 of 100 points in its Agave Trophy 2025, a competition tasted on October 24 and October 31, 2025, according to Falstaff's published tasting record.
The score applies to the bottling imported into Austria by the distributor topspirit.at, listed at 38 percent alcohol by volume and priced between 20 and 50 euros, a different proof point than the 40 percent version sold in the United States. The spirit carries the NOM registration 1122, the Mexican government code tied to Casa Cuervo's La Rojeña distillery in the town of Tequila, Jalisco, a figure that appears consistently across Falstaff's listing and independent retailer pages for the brand.
What Falstaff's tasters recorded
Falstaff ran the sample past two separate panels eight days apart and arrived at the same 93 point result both times. The October 24 sitting drew nine tasters, including Alexander Thürer, Benjamin Herzog, Dominik Vombach, Roland Graf, Erhard Ruthner, Othmar Kiem, Simon Staffler, Irene Forni and Hermann Botolen. A smaller panel of three, Roland Graf, Erhard Ruthner and Alexander Thürer, retasted the spirit on October 31 and confirmed the score. Falstaff's notes describe herbal and mint aromatics alongside white pepper and cooked agave on the nose, with vanilla and oak carrying through to a soft, rounded finish. The 93 point mark is up from the 90 points the same Reposado received in Falstaff's Spirits Special 2024 tasting, dated October 18 of that year, when a separate panel evaluated the bottle.
Where 1800 Reposado is made and how markets differ
1800 Tequila is owned by the Beckmann family, which also controls Jose Cuervo through the publicly traded parent company Becle. Multiple reference sources place the brand's origin in the 1960s as a higher end line distinct from standard Cuervo, with 1800 distributed in the United States since 2008 by Proximo Spirits, the Beckmann family's own distribution company. Falstaff's listing describes the Reposado entered in the Agave Trophy as aged for six months in a combination of American and French oak before bottling. US market descriptions from retailers cite the same aging minimum and the same 100 percent blue Weber agave base, though at 40 percent alcohol by volume rather than the 38 percent figure attached to the Austrian import. What is not established in the Falstaff record or in retailer listings reviewed is whether the bottle entered into the 2025 Agave Trophy came from the same production lot sold at retail, a detail Falstaff's tasting pages do not specify.
How the Reposado fits 1800's wider Falstaff record
The Reposado is one of several 1800 expressions Falstaff has rated in recent competitions. Falstaff's producer page for 1800 Tequila lists a Blanco scored as high as 95 points and an Añejo in the mid nineties, placing the Reposado's 93 within a lineup Falstaff has rated consistently in the low to mid nineties across its agave spirits coverage. Falstaff separately named 1800 Tequila Reposado among the entries on its all time Reposado ranking, a list the publication compiles from scores across multiple tasting cycles. Proximo Spirits describes 1800 elsewhere in its own marketing material as the most awarded tequila in its portfolio, a characterization that has not been independently verified against a complete awards ledger.