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WT Staff
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June 3, 2025, 1 pm EDT
Transcend-ice - A hundred thousand years of history in your glass as Arctic Ice makes a profitable venture of climate adaptation
Your hosts at Nahaté Dubai have truly gone to the ends of the earth to curate an evening for the ages. Gather with your people. Prepare to be elevated.
Once perfection has become commonplace and wealth has become mundane, one struggles to experience the next level thrill. Now the very wealthy can break through luxury fatigue with a next-level dimension to experience.
To enter the zone fully requires presence, and readiness for wonder. Settling into the place set for you, time must now be suspended. Passion and art greet you, wrapped up in genuine intention for your delight, dynamic forces captured in and radiating from the finest, Baccarat crystals on the table, reflected by crystals above, to encircle your company in goodwill for an unforgettable night.
This is not a spreadsheet exercise. Your hosts have gone to the ends of the earth, sparing no effort. Every detail in the room is intentional, every ingredient hand-selected and artfully arranged. The particular brand of hospitality of your hosts, along with the Chefs, Master Distillers and Tobacconists weave passion for perfection together with a desire for your transcendent experience here. The evening will be symphonic, resonant with character, floating on layered harmonies of each contributor. Once seated in this timeless dimension Nahaté, everything has changed. These moments will not be reproduced, for you are no longer the same. Add this night to your collection of memorable moments, until the next opportunity to ascend.
Cast from the imagination of Fleming, your Vesper martini is shaken as it were for the mysterious character, Bond. The cascade of ice crystals on metal, sluicing spirits and shards of frozen water in the expert hands of the master mixologist. This ice is a remarkable treasure, an ancient record of a hundred thousand years, a copy of ages, captured eras comingled with distilled perfection in your hand.

Clear ice rocks carved by forces of nature from an ancient ice sheet, a state of brilliant energy passing as quickly as our lives. Spend this time carefully, with all your senses and presence. You may have all the bank in the world, but you cannot afford to miss a nuance here. We will not pass this way again.
The Greenland ice sheet is melting at the rate of 120 shipping containers per second. This is a train a mile long, rushing past at sixty miles per hour, it will keep you waiting at the crossing for a full minute. How can that be? For there is not one train, but sixty on this track, at once. Can you hear the roar?
Each rock and berg cracking off the shifting Greenland ice drifts southward on the ocean current to melt in the sea, raising the ocean volume, diluting the salinity, challenging coastlines around the globe. If you drop in to Nahaté Dubai, on the third floor of the International Finance Centre, have a drink on the rocks. It tastes like childhood, I am told. It is my dream to go one day.
On the rocks
Climate adaptation engages the human will to find a way forward through destructive forces reshaping the planet.
Here is Arctic Ice, walking back sea level rise, one cube at a time. Clear ice from the bottom of the Greenland ice sheet is stealthy. Practically invisible to boaters, these tiny icebergs will sink small vessels, casting crew and passengers overboard. The co-founder of Arctic Ice was nearly killed, catapulted into the icy cold water, the 40 longest minutes of his life were full of reflecting. Recovered and safe, the business opportunity arose.
Harvesting these deadly floating bulkheads before they melt away has brought opportunity to local fishing crews, the product provides an timeless and priceless experience for the culinary adventurers. Up to 20 shipping containers per year will be shipped to the freezer in Dubai. A year supply from a fraction of a second worth of melting, perhaps saving the life of one micro-mariner. The company has acquired a specialized milling machine to produce a smooth sphere, or whatever geometric ice cube you please. As for the connoisseurs NaHate, Dubai the naturally sculpted presentation is preferred. Could there be a better way to blend a beverage? We think not.
Andrey Bolshakov is a purveyor of delicacies for the NaHate bar, making decadent the pourable. Asked to facilitate the VIP lounge at the Monaco Formula 1 race last year, Bolshakov raised up a new standard for the entertainment of those most privileged voyeurs. As Gerald Donaldson puts in in his Formula 1 Autobiographies, "Only comparatively few fans are able to attend Grands Prix in person, where the sights, sounds and smells, the all-pervasive aura of drama and the sheer magnitude of the spectacle amount to a sensory experience that can be almost tasted and touched." For the VIP fans of the Monaco race, the touch of Arctic Ice in their beverages is the step from perfection to zen state.
We asked Bolshakov how he came upon this key ingredient. "Instagram. Four days before the event." A last-minute flight to Greenland to pick up the frozen cargo in special boxes and on to Nice. Customs in France was a challenge. A zealous officer took the VIP bartender to task. Bolshakov says he is known to travel with various and sundry rare ingredients on the regular, but this trip seemed doomed. "Cause me to dump this water, if you must", Bolshakov conceded. Thankfully, the story did not end there. The circuit was completed. Arctic Ice was served at Monaco, making it to the Nahaté menu from there.
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