Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-15
Domaine Nasai, a Fine-Wine Archive with a Long Memory
A personal archive of 34 detailed tasting notes covering Burgundy, Champagne, rare vintages, and unusually specific bottles.
Why it surfacedThe archive turns expensive wine into compact stories of place, provenance, aging, and obsession: a 1997 Chevalier-Montrachet from a 0.16-hectare parcel, a Champagne cuvée made in only five vintages, and a white Burgundy that spent 21 vintages under a humbler label. Its sharply titled entries and informed, sensory prose give the site the feel of a private cellar notebook made public.
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The Two-Tonne Temperature Problem
August 15’s newborn domains include a live-aboard hydrogen airship with a two-tonne lift problem, a Japanese toolbox that explains its assumptions, an advisory-by-advisory Hawaiʻi hurricane archive, and a wedding-gift game about ungrateful poultry.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-15 Domain Arrivals issue.