I was fortunate enough to have found a local liquor store who made a barrel purchase of Eagle Rare. The name of the location was FishPaws near Annapolis Maryland. Having purchased a number of bottles previously, there does seem to be a great variety in the qualities of individual bottles. The barrel it fishponds was exceptional, enough so that I bought a case. And I'm probably going to go back for another. I am however noting an unsettling trend. It's occurring in all products coming from Buffalo Trace. The price and all buffalo trace products in Maryland seems to be greatly exaggerated. I'm sure some of this is because of high taxes on alcohol products. However, I'm equally certain there was a great deal of price gouging occurring at the level of distributorship. I frequented number of local liquor stores and the price varies widely much more so then should be considered normal.