{"id":68991,"date":"2024-09-30T12:30:47","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T10:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/?p=68991"},"modified":"2024-09-30T12:30:47","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T10:30:47","slug":"macanudo-releases-estate-reserve-no-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/macanudo-releases-estate-reserve-no-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Macanudo Releases Estate Reserve No. 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">For the third and final Estate Reserve release, Macanudo has partnered with the award-winning Flint Knoll winery in Napa Valley to craft a cigar with tobacco aged in Cabernet barrels.<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Macanudo has aged tobacco in the same French Oak barrels as Flint Knoll\u2019s 2021 Royal Appointment Cabernet Sauvignon, allowing both the wine and the barrel to influence the cigar&#8217;s flavor.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Flint Knoll Winery is a boutique vineyard specializing in single-vineyard mountain Cabernet Sauvignon from Napa Valley. Using solely French Oak barrels from French cooperages, Flint Knoll is a small but highly respected vineyard in the world of fine wines.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Steve Abbot, Director of Marketing, said, &#8222;Macanudo\u2019s Estate Reserve offerings are the result of a shared appreciation for two similar crafts. For Estate Reserve No. 3, we were lucky to have great tobaccos and wine come together to create an exceptional cigar.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Aaron Michaelis, founder of Flint Knoll Winery, said, \u201c2021 was a special year for Napa Valley wine. A lack of rain and lower temperatures brought us an ultra-rare vintage, and you can taste the subtleties in the tobaccos aged in the same barrels.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Macanudo Estate Reserve No. 3 is hand-rolled at General Cigar\u2019s Dominican factory. Macanudo Estate Reserve Release No. 3 comes in a 10-count box at a Churchill (7 X 52) vitola. MSRP is $19.99 per cigar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Wrapper: Ecuadorian Connecticut<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Binder: US Broadleaf<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Filler: Brazilian, Dominican, Nicaraguan, Dominican<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macanudo completes the Flint Knoll Trifecta with Estate Reserve release No. 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":68992,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[49,55,2812,44],"tags":[8585,9476],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68991"}],"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=68991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68994,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68991\/revisions\/68994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}