{"id":3109,"date":"2020-07-30T13:58:31","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T20:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=3109"},"modified":"2021-01-03T15:21:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T23:21:26","slug":"2020-cigar-retailer-survey-toros-supplant-robustos-as-best-selling-size","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=3109","title":{"rendered":"2020 Cigar Retailer Survey: Toros Supplant Robustos As Best-Selling Size"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"article-base__info-date\">Posted on Jul 27, 2020<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"article-base__info-author\">By\u00a0<a title=\"See more from David Savona\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cigaraficionado.com\/author\/david-savona\">David Savona<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The cigar world was long dominated by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cigaraficionado.com\/glossary\/robusto\">robusto<\/a>, the short, plump size that has been the most popular for roughly the past quarter century. But there\u2019s a new king in the cigar world, and it\u2019s the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cigaraficionado.com\/glossary\/toro\">toro<\/a>. In our latest\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cigaraficionado.com\/cigar-insider\"><em>Cigar Insider<\/em><\/a>\u00a0survey of cigar shops across the United States, a commanding 51.7 percent of retailers named the toro (also known as a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cigaraficionado.com\/glossary\/gorda\">corona gorda<\/a>) as their best-selling size, compared to a mere 24.1 percent for the robusto.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cigaraficionado.com\/article\/2019-retailer-survey-the-best-selling-cigar-brands-in-america-market-trends-and-more\">In last year\u2019s survey<\/a>, robustos ranked No. 1. As toros are essentially slightly longer, slightly fatter robustos, consumers have clearly shown a preference for smokes of greater girth. Adding fuel to that trend is the strong showing of the No. 3 cigar size, the Grande\u00a0(6 by 60 smokes or fatter), which was named No. 1 by 17.2 percent of those answering.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cigaraficionado.com\/article\/2020-cigar-retailer-survey-toros-supplant-robustos-as-best-selling-size\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted on Jul 27, 2020 By\u00a0David Savona &nbsp; The cigar world was long dominated by the\u00a0robusto, the short, plump size that has been the most popular for roughly the past quarter century. But there\u2019s a new king in the cigar world, and it\u2019s the\u00a0toro. In our latest\u00a0Cigar Insider\u00a0survey of cigar shops across the United States,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":3110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cigar-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3111,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109\/revisions\/3111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}