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.