Aging Room Quattro Nicaragua
The award line. The Maestro vitola won Cigar of the Year 2019 - a fact that sells sticks all by itself.
Aging Room is the boutique brand of Cuban-born blender Rafael Nodal, best known for the Quattro Nicaragua - whose Maestro vitola was named Cigar of the Year by Cigar Aficionado in 2019. MDC distributes the Quattro Nicaragua family to hospitality and retail partners nationwide.
Some brands need a paragraph of explanation. Aging Room needs one line: the Quattro Nicaragua Maestro was Cigar Aficionado's #1 Cigar of the Year in 2019. That award still moves cigars every single week, years later - guests walk in having read about it, and venues that stock it get credit for knowing their humidor.
MDC keeps 19 active Aging Room SKUs in rotation, all centered on the Quattro Nicaragua family: the original blend, the Sonata series, and the Concerto large formats, with music-named vitolas - Maestro, Espressivo, Vibrato - across each. Ten-count boxes on several SKUs make it easy to add the award-winner without a heavy opening commitment.
“Aging Room is in our standing rotation because the accounts we serve - from casinos to cigar bars - sell through it consistently. That's the only reason a brand stays on our line card.”
Not every SKU in the Aging Room catalog is in our standing rotation - we curate to what actually moves at retail. These are the core lines we keep in depth.
The award line. The Maestro vitola won Cigar of the Year 2019 - a fact that sells sticks all by itself.
The follow-up movement: same music-named vitolas, its own blend character. The natural second chapter for fans of the original.
The large-format expression of the family, in the same 20-count boxes. For the guest who wants the long version.
Aging Room's portfolio is boutique-premium and flavor-forward, and the award pedigree makes it a natural for venues where guests read ratings: cigar lounges, upscale steakhouses, and hotel and resort programs with a curated display humidor. A "Cigar of the Year 2019" shelf talker is the closest thing to a self-selling cigar in the category. Golf and country clubs use the Quattro Nicaragua as their marquee member pick, with Sonata as the rotation refresher that keeps the brand feeling current.
MDC's active Aging Room SKUs run roughly $62–$399 per box wholesale - gift sets and 10-counts at the accessible end, with standard 20-count boxes clustered in the $230–$280 band. Venues typically retail at 1.8x–2.5x wholesale, and the award history supports pricing at the top of that range: this is one of the few boutique brands where the guest already knows why it costs what it costs.
The MDC approach to any brand is the same: start with a curated core rotation sized to your venue, prove sell-through, then layer in deeper SKU coverage as the account matures. For a typical hospitality account, a Aging Room program begins with 2–3 vitolas across 40–60 cigars of opening depth, paired with the other brands that complement your overall humidor structure.
Because Aging Room is one of the core workhorse brands in the category, it's almost always part of the MDC opening-proposal for any new account - the exact SKUs and depth vary by whether you're running a bar-led hospitality program, a dedicated cigar lounge, or a pro-shop display. Your rep builds the proposal fast once you apply, with real numbers keyed to your venue.
Other brands frequently paired with Aging Room in MDC programs: Ep Carrillo , My Father , Montecristo , La Aroma De Cuba . For the complete list of brands MDC distributes, see the wholesale cigar brands index. For the programs each brand fits - hospitality, retail, cigar bar - see Cigars for Hospitality and Cigars for Retail.
Apply to open an MDC account. We'll look at your venue profile, your existing rotation (if any), and tell you exactly what a Aging Room program should look like on your floor - opening SKUs, depth, price points, and how it pairs with the rest of your humidor.
Every month without Aging Room on your shelf is margin your competitors are collecting. Your rep can have it in your first shipment within a week of approval.
P.S. Aging Room has been in MDC's standing rotation for 14+ years. If MDC can help your business, we can get you into a first shipment within a week of qualifying.