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“古人说: 要积了三辈子的阴德，才能闻得奇楠香, 要八辈子修来的福气，才可品或饮用奇楠香。”

The Future of Oud Oils – Fractionated Sinensis CO2

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Recently on a business trip i had 6 hours to spare so I decided to grab a bullet train ticket to the city of Dongguan, Guangzhou to visit a distillation plant/factory which I thought was potentially one of the most promising oud oil producers to have appeared in the recent years. Bullet Trains in China are just so convenient, comfortable and fast! There could be hundreds and hundreds of oud distillers.. but what made Yuzhi Agarwood so special that it was worth a detour for me? Because of many reasons! They do CO2 extraction, that is they pull out everything from raw materials, leaving behind fibrous materials, producing a thick brown paste that has swirls of white in it. Essentially a huge pot of oil/oleoresin/resin (brown) interspearsed with streaks of natural "waxes" found in wood fibres. something like smucker's peanut butter with jelly. From this Extract, they put it through a high tech fractionation process which separates the waxes and some resins from the ... [Read More...]

The KZ TEA Wheel

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  The Tea Wheel. The KZ Tea Wheel was developed from scratch rather than having had ripped it off other wine and beverage type of wheels. It too about a year’s conceptualization and testing, and by no means is an “absolute” wheel as everyone’s from different ethnicities, different olfactory and taste sensitivity/taste preferences etc. You can actually use this tea wheel as a base and adjust it if need be. Why the need for a Tea Wheel? That is because tea is always constantly evolving, the processing methods, cultivars, weather, farming methods, storage, brewing, has always been changing, and these matters are often battered by the issue of margins and money. To this end, the identities and original flavours of tea is now increasingly lost, and there must be a new way to start describing tea flavours and fragrances in words, rather than using terms like “Tieguanyin taste, Long Jing taste etc”. Even Wuyi famous tea master, whom had passed on a few years ago, Zhang Tian Fu ... [Read More...]

Wuyi Cliff Tea Part 1

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This is Part 1 of a series on Wuyi Cliff Tea. Read about Wuyi Cliff Tea Part 2 - Complexities and Wuyi Cliff Tea Part 3 - A Tea Maker that cannot be helped.   There are 36 peaks at the Wuyi Mountains, and 99 valleys are formed by these ... [Read More...]

KZ ventures into oils

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We at the KZ team had been deliberating this for a very very long time. Every time we meet a trader, a merchant, a supplier, a distiller, a farmer, we see a diverse range of wares to which we are incredibly selective and meticulous. Part to why ... [Read More...]

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