{"id":41428,"date":"2021-07-01T16:19:27","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T14:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/?p=41428"},"modified":"2021-07-01T16:19:27","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T14:19:27","slug":"el-artista-cigars-announces-the-slugger-robusto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/el-artista-cigars-announces-the-slugger-robusto\/","title":{"rendered":"El Artista Cigars Announces the Slugger Robusto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL Artista Cigars announces a new size for the David Ortiz Series. \u201cDavid\u2019s brand continues to grow,\u201d states Radhames \u2018Ram\u2019 Rodriguez, President of El Artista Cigars, \u201cand since The Slugger\u2019s launch two years ago we have had requests to bring out a new size to complement the existing Gordo XL\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>The new 50&#215;5\u201d Robusto size features the same\u00a0 The Slugger blend with a\u00a0 San Andres maduro wrapper, a Dominican Negrito binder, and fillers from Dominican Republic, Nicaragua and US. The Slugger includes several ligero tobaccos for a noticeably stronger smoke than the Original Big Papi line.<\/p>\n<p>Developed by El Artista Cigars in conjunction with Ortiz, the size is a response to Big Papi &amp; The Slugger fans&#8216; and retailer requests, \u201cWe have hosted many dozens of events with Big Papi since 2018 and gathered a lot of feedback from fans and retailers about The Slugger.\u201d Says Kevin Newman Director of Sales &amp; Marketing for El Artista Cigars, \u201cThere were many requests over the last 24 months for a Robusto, and this year we happy to bring it to PCA \u201821\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>The Slugger Robusto is offered as a 50&#215;5\u201d. Fans of the original Big Papi blend will recognize the red and white Big Papi band on The Slugger, which is adorned with a contrasting navy blue foot ribbon. Twenty cigars come in a blue and white box. Retail priced at $10.50 per cigar.<\/p>\n<p>World-wide launch of \u201cThe Slugger Robusto\u201d is set for the 88th Annual PCA Trade Show in Las Vegas and El Artista expects to ship orders starting the first week of August, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EL Artista Cigars announces a new size for the David Ortiz Series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":41458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[49,55,2812,44],"tags":[6680,5498,6684],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}