In 1998, Eduardo Fernandez traveled to Nicaragua with a dream: to grow the best tobacco in the world that captured the essence of the Cuban cigars of yesteryear. To do so, he traveled to Cuba and assembled a world-class team of Cuban agronomists who had worked at the highest levels of the Cuban cigar industry, in many cases for more than half a century, and brought them to Nicaragua. These men had overseen tobacco production during the heyday of Cuban cigars, knew exactly the flavor for which they were famous, and recognized that they could recreate the style and aroma of the Cuban leaf using traditional Cuban methods combined with the resources available to them in Nicaragua. The tobacco they cultivated was called Agonorsa leaf.