{"id":2650,"date":"2015-03-04T10:52:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T18:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=2650"},"modified":"2015-03-04T10:52:01","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T18:52:01","slug":"i-learned-a-great-deal-about-cigars-in-the-dominican-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=2650","title":{"rendered":"I learned a great deal about cigars in the Dominican Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JESSICA FESTA, EPICURE &amp; CULTURE<br \/>\nMAR. 3, 2015, 9:45 AM<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">While most people know\u00a0<a style=\"color: #00709a;\" title=\"Wine \" href=\"http:\/\/epicureandculture.com\/tag\/wine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">wine has terroir<\/a>, I was surprised on a recent trip to the Dominican Republic to learn that cigars are also affected by the region the tobacco is grown in, as well as body, aroma, flavor and aging.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">This was a foreign concept to me as I stepped in the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #00709a;\" title=\"Westin PUNTACANA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.starwoodhotels.com\/westin\/property\/overview\/index.html?propertyID=3805&amp;language=en_US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Westin Puntacana Resort &amp; Club<\/a>\u2018s Don Queco Cigar &amp; Rum Bar, opened in December 2013 and named after the father of one of Puntacana\u2019s founders.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #003399;\" href=\"http:\/\/epicureandculture.com\/cigar-pairing\/#ixzz3TRZ3DO4g\">http:\/\/epicureandculture.com\/cigar-pairing\/#ixzz3TRZ3DO4g<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JESSICA FESTA, EPICURE &amp; CULTURE MAR. 3, 2015, 9:45 AM While most people know\u00a0wine has terroir, I was surprised on a recent trip to the Dominican Republic to learn that cigars are also affected by the region the tobacco is grown in, as well as body, aroma, flavor and aging. This was a foreign concept<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[120],"class_list":{"0":"post-2650","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cigar-news","8":"tag-dominican-republic"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2652,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions\/2652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}