Thai Nguyen Tea
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The people behind each tea grade

At TRAVINA, four different teams handle four different product families. A buyer comparing our price list will find the logic here: each grade is made by someone with a different level of craft, on equipment built for that grade alone.

Trà Bắc (Traditional Northern Green Tea) — TRAVINA’s production team

Handled by skilled operators with 3–5 years of experience. The line runs on biomass-fired pans for thermal efficiency, paired with high-technology rolling and drying machinery imported from Taiwan. The engineering target for this family is batch-to-batch consistency — the single specification that matters most for volume buyers and private-label orders.

Green Tea and Móc Câu (Fishhook Tea) — Mr. Đỗ Trí Quân, 10 years

Mr. Đỗ Trí Quân works at near-artisan level and has spent 10 years on the floor at our Đại Từ facility. His process starts before the factory: soil management, fertilisation regime and harvest timing. Inside the facility, gas-fired and electric pans are commissioned to his own specification; the rolling machines and drying pans run as an independent line, separate from the withering pans. Not sharing one pan between withering and firing allows tighter temperature control at each stage — visible in the finished leaf: tightly and evenly curled, a clear young-rice aroma, a clean taste with a sweet finish.

Bud grades — Cánh Hạc, Nõn Hảo Hạng and Trà Đinh — Artisan Ma Thị Tuyến, 35 years

Our three highest grades are made by Ms. Ma Thị Tuyến, who has spent 35 years in the tea trade at La Bằng. For bud grades, good raw material is only the entry requirement. The decisive variables are heat perception, withering duration and stage temperature — several of which cannot be read from an instrument and must be judged by hand. That judgement is accumulated experience, paid for with many ruined batches over the years, together with techniques handed down from the previous generation and still in use today.

The 6-No Clean Tea family — Mr. Phạm Hoàng Giang, Second Prize, Golden Hands 2025

Núi Cốc Black Tea, Đông Tam Đảo Oolong, 6-No Clean Tea, White Peony (Bạch Trà Mẫu Đơn), Tam Đảo Tea Blossom and others are produced by Mr. Phạm Hoàng Giang, winner of the Second Prize at the 2025 Golden Hands tea-processing contest in Thái Nguyên. This family deliberately departs from the traditional Thái Nguyên green tea route — oxidation, natural withering and scenting — and requires its own process and equipment.

For importers and private-label partners, this is the practical point: every lot we ship can be traced not only to a growing area and a certificate, but to the person who fired it.

Grade sheet: what sets each grade apart

Our whole green tea range on one list, from tea-bag fannings to hand-roasted needle tea. Each line shows the plucking standard and what sets the grade apart; tap + for the site, the maker and the lab report we send with the quotation.

Oolong, White Peony, 6-No Clean Tea and Núi Cốc Black Tea sit outside this ladder. Mr. Phạm Hoàng Giang makes them on a separate line, as described above. Lab reports: Oolong 79102025/KQKN, 6-No Clean Tea 4982025/KQKN, Núi Cốc Black Tea 4782025/KQKN.

6-No is our own farming standard: no herbicide, no chemical pesticide, no chemical fertiliser, no growth stimulant, and in processing no flavouring and no preservative. It is not an organic certification.

*Lab reports are issued by the Thái Nguyên Centre for Agro-Forestry-Fishery Quality Technical Services and Training (VILAS 1098), except the NATEK report noted. In 2025 our team won Second Prize at the Golden Hands tea-processing contest held at La Bằng, Thái Nguyên; the contest’s second-prize tea was later sold at auction for VND 150 million (Báo Thái Nguyên, 14 December 2025).