Rafael Nodal Adds New Line To Award-Winning Aging Room Brand
Brand owner and musician Rafael Nodal has added another movement to his symphonic suite of Aging Room cigars, and it’s being introduced later this month at the Tobacco Plus Expo trade show. Called Aging Room Quattro Nicaragua Sonata, the all-Nicaraguan cigar is a line extension of the Aging Room Quattro Nicaragua, a high-scoring brand that won Cigar of the Year in 2019 for its Maestro size.
Drawing influence from the sonatas of such composers as Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven, Nodal—a pianist and violinist himself—wanted to create what he believed would be the cigar equivalent of a sonata. He did this by once again turning to cigarmaker A.J. Fernandez to help realize his vision. As with the Aging Room Quattro Nicaragua, all the tobacco in Sonata was grown on Fernandez’s farms, but Nodal says that Sonata is a bit lighter in body on account of the different seed varietals and longer fermentation process.
Aging Room Quattro Nicaragua Sonata is made at Fernandez’s factory in Estelí and comes in six sizes: Espressivo, measuring 5 inches by 50 ring gauge ($13.02); a 6-by-52 torpedo called Maestro ($13.13); Vibrato at 6 by 54 ($13.24); Concerto, 7 by 50 ($13.37); a 6-by-60 Grande ($13.55) and a double-tapered figurado with a suggested retail price of $14.98 that measures 6 1/2 by 52 called Impromptu. All sizes come in 20-count boxes except for the Impromptu, which comes in boxes of 10.
After their preview to retailers at the TPE trade show, which starts on February 22 in Las Vegas, the cigars should ship to retailers around the middle of March. Aging Room cigars are distributed by Altadis U.S.A., a division of Tabacalera USA.
For a vertical brand tasting on the Aging Room Quattro Nicaragua Sonata, see a future issue of Cigar Insider.
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