THE NEW LIMITED-RUN AGING ROOM CREATED TO CELEBRATE THE BRAND’S 15^th ANNIVERSARY!

 -          MADE FOR AGING ROOM BY AJ FERNANDEZ

 Cigar Aficionado – October 2025

Gemmologists and jewelers know that blue amber is a fossilized resin brilliantly hued by the chemical compound perylene. It occurs naturally and most of it can be found in the Dominican Republic. It’s also the newest line of Aging Room cigars. The Aging Room Blue Amber celebrates the brand’s 15th anniversary. Although the cigars are made in Nicaragua, the blend contains some Dominican tobacco, playing off the theme of blue amber and its origin. 

According to Rafael Nodal, owner of the Aging Room brand and vice president of product capability for Tabacalera USA (which distributes Aging Room), blue amber can be found in the Cordillera Septentrional mountains of the Dominican Republic. He says that some of the tobaccos in the blend were grown near Las Cumbres on the same mountain range where the amber is mined. The area overlooks the Cibao Valley, one of the most important tobacco-growing regions of the Dominican Republic. 

Nodal knows that the cool mountain air and mineral-rich soils of this area won’t make the tobacco blue, but he believes it does impact on the character of the tobacco in a meaningful way.

“The tobaccos used in this blend come from fields nestled in the Cordillera Septentrional mountain range near Las Cumbres—just steps away from where the blue amber stone is found,” Nodal says. “This connection is more than symbolic, it’s literal. The same earth that forms the gem also nourishes the leaves, infusing them with a distinctive mineral essence with refined complexity and a perfectly harmonious symphony of flavors.”