{"id":66000,"date":"2023-12-06T12:05:44","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T11:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/?p=66000"},"modified":"2023-12-06T12:05:44","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T11:05:44","slug":"jose-blanco-the-professor-spain-tour-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/jose-blanco-the-professor-spain-tour-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Jos\u00e9 Blanco, The Professor: Spain Tour 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jos\u00e9 Blanco, Worldwide Brand Ambassador for Arturo Fuente, has travelled to almost twenty cities in Spain where he has visited tobacconists, met dozens of passionados and given eight tasting seminars with Hemingway Short Story and Magnum Rosado 52. His trainings go through the processes of making a premium cigar and the art of blending, the immeasurable value of time, how the wrapper affects a cigar blend and the factors that are potentially influencing the strength, among other topics. This Spain Tour 2023 was organised by LCT- La Casa del Tabaco, the Spanish premium cigar distribution company, and Arturo Fuente Cigars.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Popularly known as The Professor, Jos\u00e9 Blanco is a cigar expert with more than 50 years of experience in the tobacco business. Few other cigar business professionals have contributed their knowledge and expertise to both the industry and cigar smokers themselves to the extent that Jos\u00e9 Blanco has. He\u2019s absolutely passionate about educating cigar smokers of every stripe. In every workshop, Jos\u00e9 Blanco, the New York-born Dominican industry veteran, highlights how important is to educate not only consumers, but also retailers, in order to enhance the value of the tobacco culture and enjoy the best experiences that premium cigars can give.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In 2021, Arturo Fuente Cigars announced its alliance with LCT for the distribution of its cigars in Spain, a successful union that has led the Dominican brand to become one of the most popular among the community of premium cigar lovers in the country.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jos\u00e9 Blanco, Worldwide Brand Ambassador for Arturo Fuente, has travelled to almost twenty cities in Spain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":66001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[49,63,44],"tags":[9185],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66000"}],"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=66000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66003,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66000\/revisions\/66003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}