Aging Room Quattro Nicaragua Sonata Shipping Now
A piece of music is a fluid thing, with an almost infinite number of ways to express and interpret its melodies, themes and rhythms. Musician Rafael Nodal, one of the owners of Aging Room cigars, is taking a lighter approach to his latest cigar, Quattro Nicaragua Sonata, which started shipping this week.
A sonata is a type of musical composition typically involving either a solo instrument or a small ensemble, with two to four movements played in the same key but with their own distinctive character. Nodal, a pianist and violinist, has once again teamed up with A.J. Fernandez to create his own cigar version of a sonata that would pay tribute to Nicaragua and its people.
“Beethoven’s Moonlight and other sonatas from Mozart, Schubert, Chopin and Rachmaninoff are among my favorites,” Nodal says.
Made at Fernandez’s factory in Estelí, Nicaragua, the box-pressed line is intended to be lighter in body than the original line as it uses longer fermentation and different seed varietals, but they are all leaves grown in Nicaragua by Fernandez.
Sonata comes in six vitolas: 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 double-tapered figurado called Impromptu, 6 1/2 by 52 ($14.98); and a 6-by-60 Grande ($13.55). All sizes come in 20-count boxes except for the Impromptu, which comes in boxes of 10.
The original Quattro Nicaragua line has performed quite well in the past, with the Maestro size being named Cigar Aficionado’s No. 1 Cigar of 2019.
