{"id":67089,"date":"2024-03-25T03:10:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T02:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/?p=67089"},"modified":"2024-04-04T13:23:56","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T11:23:56","slug":"west-tampa-tobacco-company-in-the-fast-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/west-tampa-tobacco-company-in-the-fast-lane\/","title":{"rendered":"West Tampa Tobacco Company &#8211; in the fast lane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cheerful crew &#8211; Rick and Sarah Rodriguez and their team &#8211; welcome us to their booth in the best of moods.<\/p>\n<p>And they have every reason to: the company is celebrating its second birthday in May &#8211; and is already represented in 38 countries. &#8222;In the first year, we hoped to gain a foothold in 50 to 100 stores in the USA &#8211; there were 300; our cigars are now available in 500 stores,&#8220; says founder Rick Rodriguez happily. Daughter and business partner Sara speaks of a magical journey&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>With Circle of Life, they are presenting their latest product at the trade show. Circle of Life brings together two of the industry\u2019s most well-known master blenders, Ernesto Perez-Carrillo and Rick Rodriguez.<br \/>\nFirst shipments of Circle of Life will begin in May and will be available both in the US and international markets.<\/p>\n<p>Circle of Life will be available full-time in three sizes, 20 cigars\/box and rolled at Casa Carrillo in Santiago, Dominican Republic:<\/p>\n<p>Robusto (5X52)- $12.99 SRP(USD)<br \/>\nToro (6X54)- $13.99 SRP(USD)<br \/>\nGigante (6X60)- $14.99 SRP(USD)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Circle of Life, West Tampa Tobacco Company are presenting their latest product at the trade show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":67095,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[49,55,2812,6763,44],"tags":[9289,8397],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67089"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67090,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67089\/revisions\/67090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}