{"id":2716,"date":"2015-09-02T07:58:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T14:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=2716"},"modified":"2015-09-02T07:58:26","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T14:58:26","slug":"padron-damaso-qa-with-jorge-padron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=2716","title":{"rendered":"Padr\u00f3n D\u00e1maso: Q&#038;A With Jorge Padr\u00f3n"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m always interested when a new Padron is released! Good interview here about the new sticks from Padron&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222;\"><i>Last month, Padr\u00f3n Cigars Inc. released\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #cb6247;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cigaraficionado.com\/webfeatures\/show\/id\/milder-padron-with-connecticut-wrapper-coming-to-market-18251\" target=\"_blank\">Padr\u00f3n D\u00e1maso<\/a>, a brand with a very different look and taste than the full-bodied cigars Padr\u00f3n has made for 50 years. D\u00e1maso cigars are mild- to medium-bodied, covered with Connecticut-seed wrappers, and sold in the round, rather than the traditional Padr\u00f3n box-press.<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222;\"><i>Recently, executive editor David Savona spoke with Padr\u00f3n president Jorge Padr\u00f3n to get insights on the creation of the brand, and to reveal new details of what goes into this new cigar line.<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222;\"><b>Savona<\/b>: Why would you, the maker of such full-flavored cigars, and the president of a company that&#8217;s extremely successful, make the somewhat dramatic move of making a cigar that&#8217;s so different from what you&#8217;re used to making?<br \/>\n<b>Padr\u00f3n<\/b>: The answer is a simple one\u2014we want to give more people the chance to try Padr\u00f3n cigars. For years, we focused on producing a certain type of product that appeals to a certain type of consumer who prefers cigars that are full bodied, in the stronger taste profile. And that will not change. We will continue to do that as long as we can. That will always stay the same. But here&#8217;s a large part of the market that we are not reaching with these cigars, and we thought it was important to appeal to a different type of customer who may not necessarily be one who will smoke a Padr\u00f3n right now. Hopefully we can get more people to try a Padr\u00f3n product\u2014some that may not otherwise have tried one; people that prefer milder cigars. And, we can bring them into the Padr\u00f3n family little by little.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cigaraficionado.com\/webfeatures\/show\/id\/padron-damaso-qa-with-jorge-padron-18355\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m always interested when a new Padron is released! Good interview here about the new sticks from Padron&#8230; &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- Last month, Padr\u00f3n Cigars Inc. released\u00a0Padr\u00f3n D\u00e1maso, a brand with a very different look and taste than the full-bodied cigars Padr\u00f3n has made for 50 years. D\u00e1maso cigars are mild- to medium-bodied, covered with Connecticut-seed wrappers,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[129,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-2716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cigar-news","8":"tag-damaso","9":"tag-padron"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716","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=2716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2718,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions\/2718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}