Corporate offsites · team building · client entertaining
The corporate box, reinvented in oak.
A cask of whiskey used to be filled, rolled into the dark and forgotten for a decade — no use to anyone until bottling day. This one gets tapped from the day it is filled: your team builds it, works it over six hosted experiences in Ireland, and at the end takes a few hundred bottles home under your own label.
Nobody hands the keys back at the end of the season.
The problem
Everything you buy to entertain a team is one-and-done.
Firms spend serious money every year on offsites, client entertaining and staff incentives, and it goes down the same tried-and-tested avenues. Match tickets. The box. Dinners, nights out, trips away, another branded bottle at Christmas. All of it expensive, all of it ephemeral, and none of it leaving anything behind but a photo.
Gone by morning
The dinner, the match, the case of wine — a single moment, then nothing until you spend again.
Expensive to hold
The box, the tickets, the dinners, the gifts — it adds up fast, sits idle half the year, and takes constant managing.
Nothing left at the end
When the season ends you hand the keys back. Nothing compounds, nothing is owned, and next year you start from zero.
The solution
A cask that works from the day it is filled.
We work in whiskey and we have our own home for it — a bond built to mature, sample, re-gauge, store, blend and bottle on site, with room to bring people in while it happens. That control is what makes this possible: the cask stops being a thing in storage and becomes something the team can use, from fill day onward.
It has never been done this way before in Irish whiskey. We are the first.
Stage one · always the builder
Curate a cask that exists nowhere else.
The first thing you meet is the builder — ours alone, and open to over fourteen thousand combinations of make, wood, finish, strength and time. Whatever you land on, the odds are you will hold the only liquid of its style on the planet, bottled under your own label.
And it need not be a long wait. Go new-fill and hold it for twenty years, or draw on our warehouse of aged stock and have something in bottle as soon as next year.
Why it works on a team
Team building that produces evidence.
Facilitated exercises end when the facilitator leaves. This one has a physical output, a shared decision record and a date in the calendar that pulls the same people back together years later.
Stage three · the cherry on top
When the box season ends you hand back the keys. When the cask matures, you own the whiskey.
That is the part nothing else in the entertainment budget can do. At maturity the cask is bottled under your own label and a few hundred bottles come home with you — and then the fun starts, because every one of them is another reason to reach out.
The label is written in the portal, long before the whiskey is ready.
Name the cask, write the occasion in your own words, and the label builds itself around it — front and back, with the real cask facts filled in from the bond.
The label, mid-build in the portal
Around the programme
Nobody flies to Ireland for one day.
The day at the bond is the anchor — the part we own and run ourselves. A firm bringing its team or its best clients across the Atlantic comes for a week, and your agency or planner builds the rest around it: the house, the rooms, the dinner, the transfers.
Larch Grove is an hour and a quarter from Dublin, twenty minutes from Borris House and fifty from Ballyfin, so a group can be on site and back for dinner. Drive times approximate, from the bond.
ONE ILLUSTRATIVE SHAPE · YOUR PLANNER BUILDS THE REAL ONE