Saudade

我紫在乎你

0/0 Bag Bundle

This is the TANCHEN Studio's 0/0 Bag Bundle of SKU #008.

TANCHEN Studio is a collaborative project that focuses on textiles as the basis of their practice. They take a process-based approach to design with a focus on new materials and tactility. From their studios based in Singapore and Shanghai, they create functional textiles that can be used as autonomous elements within a living space. They aim to source and design mindfully as they celebrate the potential of materials, crafts, and techniques

“0/0” (pronounced “zero-zero”) refers to wines with minimal intervention. Zero added, and zero removed: just pure fermented grape juice. In the same spirit, we designed this bag by going back to basics. The 0/0 bag’s stripped-back design and elastic material mean that it stretches to reveal and take on the object’s shape. As wine lovers, we created it specifically to hold large bottles, but it can also be used to carry all kinds of things: fruits, beer cans, tumblers, and much more.

Every bag is handcrafted with zero-waste as our goal. Yarn is measured and cut to ensure that there is minimal wastage of scraps, and each bag is made to order. Easy to fold, scrunch up, and carry around, we hope this also helps reduce the need for single-use plastic or paper bags.


By making this purchase, you will be purchasing a bundle of items (Limited to 50 sets), which includes:

Physical Goods

01x Bottle of Saudade 我紫在乎你 - Irish Whiskey 2002, 18 Years, 50.2%
01x TANCHEN Studio's 0/0 Bag - Purple & Lilac Bag, with Black wooden handles, hand-finished in gold acrylic paint. The handles were clear-varnished for waterproofing.

These wooden handles were individually hand-painted & finished with varnish by,  

Sanchia Tan 🧵   (TanChen Studios)
Warren Khong  👨‍🎨 & Fiona Koh 👩‍🎨 (Whisky and Foxtrot, an art and design studio behind the Curated Range / Year 2 labels)  
the HampdenPirate 🏴‍☠️ (Malt, Grain & Cane)


More about the Artist & Label...

With every ending, there is a new beginning…

As we close out on Year 1: Foundation Year; We at Malt, Grain & Cane, present you, Year 2 & the launch of our artist-collaboration series, the Curated Range. We will be working with various artists to incorporate their artworks into our future bottlings.


We start off the Curated Range, with @WarrenKhong and a privately commissioned artwork from his Portrait series.

The backstory behind the Portrait series is an introspection into one’s extent in the pursuit of beauty. In this series, the various subjects have their various parts of their face “enhanced”, such as their chins, cheekbones, and eyes. One would often wonder, how far would we go in the pursuit of beauty, through plastic surgery and other various aesthetic procedures.


The @HampdenPirate wanted to explore a different angle of this obsession over beauty; “What If… it was a third-party pursuing over beauty ( a person ) ?”

Hence, the title, Saudade 我紫在乎你 ; a play of words on a Teresa Teng’s (鄧麗君) classic, 我只在乎你 ( I Only Care About You ), where the word “only” or「 只 」is replaced with the word for purple 「 紫 」, as both of them are homonyms (both words sounding the same).

Saudade (English: /ˌsaʊˈdɑːdə/, European Portuguese: [sɐwˈðaðɨ], Brazilian Portuguese: [sawˈdad(ʒ)i], Galician: [sawˈðaðɪ]; plural saudades) is a deep emotional state of nostalgic or profound melancholic longing for something or someone that one cares for and/or loves.

Moreover, it often carries a repressed knowledge that the object of longing might never be had again. It is the recollection of feelings, experiences, places, or events that once brought excitement, pleasure, and well-being, which now trigger the senses and make one experience the pain of separation from those joyous sensations.

However, it acknowledges that to long for the past would detract from the excitement you feel towards the future. Saudade describes a feeling both happy and sad, and might be most closely related to the English expression ‘bitter sweet’.

Additional requests include the replacement of the signature birthmark on the cheekbone with a heart-shaped symbol; and a flower on the subject’s hair.

The flower is the Artist’s impression of a Tsubaki つばき flower「 椿 」, also known as Camellia Japonica, a species of camellia flower commonly found in Japan. A scentless flower that blooms beautifully & quietly,  while proclaiming nothing. The flower normally blooms from early winter or spring, and usually lasts for 4-5 months, before once again, quietly shedding its petals when its time is up.

The red variant of the Tsubaki flower is often viewed to symbolise Love, Passion & Desire.