Traditional Northern Green Tea (Tra Bac)
The everyday tea of northern Vietnam. Strong enough for a tea house or a canteen, honest enough to drink all day.
Traditional Northern Green Tea (Tra Bac) is plucked by hand to the one-bud-two-to-three-leaf standard in the cooperative gardens at Dai Tu, Thai Nguyen province, northern Vietnam. Every TRAVINA tea is picked by hand; none of it is machine-harvested.
The dry leaf carries the blue-black sheen that marks good Thai Nguyen tea. In the cup it pours honey gold, with warm, lightly toasted notes on the nose; in the mouth, brisk at the front, with a gentle sweet finish.
The gardens are farmed to Six No practice. That is not the same as certified organic and TRAVINA does not claim that it is. What the cooperative does hold is VietGAP (DVCL-VG-TT-24-19-68), food safety licence 14/2025/UBND-NNMT-TNg, registered planting-area code.
TRAVINA is the export brand of Tam Tra Viet Cooperative in Thai Nguyen. Ninety member households farm 40.5 hectares across Dai Tu and La Bang. Every leaf is picked by hand, and every batch is processed at the cooperative own facilities.
Every photograph on this page was taken at our own cooperative in Dai Tu, Thai Nguyen. Real leaf, real packaging, no stock images.
- Taste: brisk at the front, with a gentle sweet finish.
- Aroma: warm and lightly toasted.
- Liquor: honey gold.
- Three to four infusions from one measure of leaf.
- Picked by hand and processed by the same cooperative that farms the gardens, so every batch is traceable to a plot.
| Product name | Traditional Northern Green Tea (Tra Bac) |
|---|---|
| Type | Vietnamese green tea |
| Grade | Traditional Northern grade (Tra Bac) |
| Picking standard | one bud with two to three leaves |
| Ingredients | 100 percent Thai Nguyen green tea leaf |
| Origin | Dai Tu and La Bang, Thai Nguyen province, northern Vietnam |
| Producer | Tam Tra Viet Cooperative (TRAVINA) |
| Production facility | Dai Tu facility |
| Certification | VietGAP (DVCL-VG-TT-24-19-68), food safety licence 14/2025/UBND-NNMT-TNg, registered planting-area code |
| Packing | 100 g, 200 g and 500 g vacuum pouches |
| Storage | Cool, dry place, away from direct sunlight and strong odours. Reseal tightly or refrigerate after opening. |
| Shelf life | As printed on each pack. |
| Wholesale | Bulk, private label and export packing available. Minimum order quantity and lead time on request. |
- Warm the pot and cups with boiling water, then pour it away.
- Use 10 g of leaf for one standard pot. About 6 g gives a lighter cup, 12 to 15 g a strong one. One kilogram makes roughly 100 pots.
- Wake the leaf: cover with hot water, swirl for five seconds and pour it away.
- First infusion: water at about 80 to 85 C. Let boiled water stand two minutes. Steep 20 to 25 seconds.
- Add 10 to 15 seconds for each further infusion. Good leaf gives three to four.
