Chatter about the Veritas 412 started hitting the internet in early April as the company teased the cigar’s release via its social media channels, with the cigar formally launching at the 2014 IPCPR convention and trade show in July. It will debut in a single vitola, a 6 x 54 toro, with a limited run made in the first year before becoming an ongoing production cigar in 2015, with production being handled by Tacasa S.A. in Estelí, Nicaragua. The Veritas 412 gets its name from the area code of Pittsburgh, Penn., which holds a special meaning for Chris Weber, the vp and marketing director of Veritas Cigar Co. “Pittsburgh is my second home, my entire family is from there,” he told halfwheel. “My parents both met and married there, my mom’s father was Commander of the North Side for the Pittsburgh Police Dept., and my father’s father worked in the steel mills for US Steel. Pittsburgh made the steel that helped build this country and Black and Gold flows through my veins and as such I wanted to pay tribute to that on the band.” This is the second time that Veritas has included Pittsburgh in its designs, as the company’s Torch line includes the city ...
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