Aging Room Quattro Nicaragua Concerto Line Premiering Next Month
Aging Room Quattro Nicaragua is getting its third movement. The Aging Room Quattro Nicaragua Concerto is the third line in the Aging Room Quattro Nicaragua series, which brand owner Rafael Nodal sees as a larger orchestral suite of sorts. Given his musical background, many of Nodal’s brands have symphonic or operatic themes. This is no different. The Concerto follows the 2019’s Cigar of the Year award for the Maestro size. It will be shipping next month directly after the PCA trade show in New Orleans.
While there are similarities in style to its predecessors, Concerto is a separate blend. The new brand is another collaboration between cigarmaker A.J. Fernandez in Nicaragua and Nodal, who serves as vice president of product capability for Tabacalera USA, parent company to Altadis U.S.A., which distributes Aging Room cigars.
According to Nodal, Concerto was blended around a hybrid Criollo ’98 wrapper grown on Fernandez’s La Lilia farm in Estelí. The all-Nicaraguan blend also includes tobacco from the first harvest of Fernandez’s Los Espejos farm nearly 12 years ago. Rafael says that these farms produce thicker leaves that require extra fermentation and aging time. Ultimately, the blend is intended to be medium-to-full-bodied.
“The Concerto, inspired by classical music compositions, represents a harmonious collaboration between a solo instrument and orchestral accompaniment,” Nodal explains. “In this blend, the solo instrument is the exclusive hybrid Criollo ’98 wrapper. The selected extra-aged tobaccos represent the accompaniment to create a concerto of flavors.”
The Aging Room Quattro Nicaragua Concerto comes in six box-pressed sizes: Espressivo, measuring 5 inches by 50 ring gauge ($14.84); Maestro, a 6-by-52 torpedo ($14.95); Vibrato, at 6 by 54 ($15.08); a 7-by-50 Churchill called Concerto ($15.23); the 6-by-60 Grande ($15.44); and the double-tapered Impromptu ($17.08). All come in 20-count boxes, save for the Impromptu, which is packaged in boxes of 10, and the Maestro, which is available in both 10-count and 20-count boxes.
For a vertical brand tasting of the Aging Room Quattro Nicaragua Concerto, see a future issue of Cigar Insider.
