Flying Tumbler
The Circle · Local
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Branch one · local · in your own city

The tasting that does the business.

Interactive hosted tastings at renowned bodegas and spirits stores in your own market. We handle the venue, the liquid, the invitations and the hosting. You bring the people — and your cask gives you the reason to.

What it's for

A living client-engagement tool, not an event.

One dinner is one night. A cask maturing in your firm's name gives you a standing reason to gather people several times a year — and something new to say each time, because the whiskey itself has changed since you last met.

Clients, prospects, referral sources, staff, stakeholders. Whoever your business needs closer, in the best whiskey room in town, with your name on the evening.

Guests raising a glass The range poured Nosing a progression sample
How it runs

You pick the guest list. We do everything else.

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Nobody from your firm has to become a whiskey expert. You show up as the host; the room is guided alongside the shop's own specialists.
Eight weeks' notice is all we ask — time to draw and label your samples, ship them, and hold the room.
Step four · who's in the room

Seat the twelve.

Twelve seats around one cask. Tap a seat to add a client, a colleague or a referral — or upload the guest list and fill the room in one go. Open seats stay in the firm's reserve until you decide who gets them.

Each seat is tied to that guest's email, which becomes their own login for the cask — where the evening's recap and their tasting scores land afterwards. Next rotation, pull a past holder back in with one click.

Clients Referrals Colleagues & team Trustees & stakeholders
Your cask
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The formats

Four rooms, four different jobs.

Same cask, same venues, different intent. Most firms rotate through all four across a year.

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The rooms

Renowned local merchants, not hotel function rooms.

We run these with independent wine and spirits specialists we already work with — places with a proper tasting room, staff who know the category, and our whiskey already on the shelf. The trust is built before your guests arrive.

If your market isn't on the list yet, tell us. It's usually a short conversation to open one.

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A tasting room
A merchant's room
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A few of the partner rooms · New York
Each one visited, vetted and stocked
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Two of the rooms, up close

This is the profile your firm sees in the portal before choosing where to host — the character of the place, why it made the list, the photographs, the seats and the map.

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Why we chose them

Every room comes with a written profile before you commit — the character of the place, why it made the list, photographs, seats, the address and a map. You're choosing a room, not a postcode.

A characterful, generously stocked room with genuine charm
A deep craft-whiskey selection, and staff who live and breathe it
An independent merchant your clients won't have seen before — unmistakably local
How the samples get there

We draw and bespoke-label twelve 5cl progression samples from your cask and ship them to the venue. You simply arrive with your twelve for a guided evening, hosted alongside the shop's own specialists.

DrawnFresh from your own cask at the bond
LabelledBespoke, in your firm's name
ShippedTo the venue, or to twelve doors for a remote sitting
NoticeEight weeks, and we handle the rest
What's in the glass

Your cask is the reason. The range is the education.

Guests taste through the Flying Tumbler range, then the thing nobody else in the room can pour: a progression sample drawn from your own cask, tasted where it is now. Every tasting, that pour is different.

Sample 1 The progression sample · drawn from your own cask
Year 5 progression sample
Fresh draw · rich mahogany · 60.9%
Laid down Jan 2021 5 years in the wood Matures 2039 Malt · Oloroso · 18yr
Nose
Date, treacle, polished oak, espresso
Palate
Unctuous, deep, layered spice
Finish
Very long, lingering PX
Every tasting draws a fresh sample — so this card reads differently each year.
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This tasting's range · a case of each
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The allocation · included and priced in
3 cases · 18 bottles

Every tasting is allocated three cases — one each of the Bird, the Roller and the Tippler. Our recommendation for the split:

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To your twelve
A bottle each. The room decides who takes what.
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Poured on the night to guide the tasting — and yours afterwards.
Nobody goes home empty-handed
A bottle each, every time you host.

Which is the quiet part of why these evenings work. Your guest leaves with a bottle of Irish whiskey and a sample of the cask maturing in your firm's name — years before the cask itself is bottled.

Plan the first one →
Hosted by us
Tracked, not guessed at

Every room is managed in your portal.

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See the whole workspace →
The other branch

When it's worth bringing them to Ireland.

Local runs the year. The four offsite days at our own bond in Ireland are the ones people talk about for a decade — fill day, the finishing bench, the bottling line, hands in the whiskey.

See the four offsite days →
An offsite day at Larch Grove
Start local

Tell us your city and who you'd fill a room with.

We'll come back with the venue we'd use, the shape of the evening and what it takes to get the first one in the diary.

circle@flyingtumbler.com
Larch Grove, Co. Carlow, Ireland
That's in — thank you.

We'll come back within two working days with a venue and a shape for the evening.

Plan a tasting
Your name
Work email
City
Which format
Who you'd bring
Or see the other branch — the four offsite days in Ireland →
Flying Tumbler
The Circle programme Offsite in Ireland The bond Wider Ireland
Larch Grove, Co. Carlow, Ireland · please enjoy responsibly