Fair enough, Squire. But it's a bit different in this case I think because A) I've read people discussing the same bourbons bought from the same visitor center a year prior for almost half the price, and B) they like to give the impression that products like EC21 and PHC7 are only available at the visitor center, which turns out not to be the case.
I'm not bitter about it, the market will bear what the market will bear - but I was asking to see if it is common practice for high end products at the HH visitor center to start out low and then work up to stratospheric. I remember thinking "That's certainly one way to keep things in stock so that your visitors still get to see the fancy bottles".
Love the use of venal, btw
ccm