Trà Móc Câu Đặc Biệt (Premium Moc Cau Green Tea)
The benchmark of northern Vietnamese tea, curled like a fish hook, from selected gardens on the eastern slope of Tam Dao.
Premium Moc Cau Green Tea (Tra Moc Cau) is plucked by hand to the one-bud-one-to-two-leaf standard in the cooperative gardens at La Bang, Thai Nguyen province, northern Vietnam. Every TRAVINA tea is picked by hand; none of it is machine-harvested.
Tasting notes
The dry leaf carries the blue-black sheen that marks good Thai Nguyen tea. In the cup it pours green with a bright golden rim, with young rice (com) on the nose; in the mouth, a clear astringency on the tip of the tongue that turns to a long sweetness.
How to brew Moc Cau green tea
Use about 5 g of leaf for a 250 ml pot. Bring the water off the boil and let it fall to 80-85 C; water at a full boil scalds the leaf and turns the astringency harsh. Rinse the leaf for five seconds and pour that water away, then steep the first infusion for 25-30 seconds, adding five to ten seconds to each infusion after it. Good Moc Cau gives four to five infusions, and the later ones are the sweetest.
Yield and grade
Six to eight kilograms of fresh buds make one kilogram of finished tea.
Certification
This grade is not part of TRAVINA’s 6 Không line, and it is not certified organic. What the cooperative does hold is VietGAP (DVCL-VG-TT-24-19-68), ISO 22000:2018 for the La Bang facility (GOODVN91025.FSMS), food safety licence 14/2025/UBND-NNMT-TNg, registered planting-area code.
Who grows it
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’s own facilities.
Where Moc Cau sits in the TRAVINA range
Moc Cau is the everyday benchmark of Thai Nguyen green tea: fine enough to serve guests, priced to drink daily. Above it sit the bud grades, where only the unopened shoot is taken – see Tien Vua Needle Tea for the top of that ladder. If you are buying for gifting rather than for daily drinking, the same leaf appears boxed in Tea Boxes and Gift Sets, and our pesticide-free line is in Trà Sạch 6 Không.
Wholesale and export
The cooperative sells this grade in bulk as well as in retail packing. Minimum order quantity is set case by case against what the season has produced rather than by a fixed table, so tell us the volume and the packing you need. For a formal export order we can supply the VietGAP certificate, the ISO 22000:2018 certificate for the La Bang facility, the food safety licence, the planting-area code and a pesticide residue test report; phytosanitary certificate, certificate of origin and HS classification are prepared per shipment.
Production details and quality documents
| Plucking standard and cultivar | 1 bud + 1 tender shoot + 1 leaf; selected hybrid cultivars |
|---|---|
| Garden and site | VietGAP gardens; fired at Site 1 (ISO 22000) |
| Made by | Đỗ Trí Quân |
| Dry leaf and cup | Tight, even, hook-curled leaf; young-rice aroma; bright green liquor with a golden sheen; mellow, sweet finish |
| Typical buyer | Our best seller and the safest first order for a new market |
Documents: lab report No. 3182025/KQKN dated 22 Aug 2025 (PDF) and product self-declaration No. 03/TRAVINA/2025 (PDF). Reports are issued by the Thái Nguyên Centre for Agro-Forestry-Fishery Quality Technical Services and Training (VILAS 1098). Documents are in Vietnamese.
Lab report No. 3182025/KQKN – page 1
Lab report No. 3182025/KQKN – page 2
Product self-declaration No. 03/TRAVINA/2025
Public copies with signatures masked; originals are shown to buyers on request and sent with the quotation. All tea lines: document library · Compare grades: grade sheet.
Every photograph on this page was taken at our own cooperative in Dai Tu, Thai Nguyen. Real leaf, real packaging, no stock images.
Buying inside Vietnam? Domestic wholesale and reseller orders are handled by our cooperative, HTX Tâm Trà Việt, on its Vietnamese site: Trà Móc Câu Thái Nguyên.
Benefits
- Taste: a clear astringency on the tip of the tongue that turns to a long sweetness.
- Aroma: young rice (com).
- Liquor: green with a bright golden rim.
- 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.
Specifications
| Product name | Premium Moc Cau Green Tea (Tra Moc Cau) |
|---|---|
| Type | Vietnamese green tea |
| Grade | Moc Cau grade |
| Picking standard | one bud with one to two 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 | La Bang facility |
| Certification | VietGAP (DVCL-VG-TT-24-19-68), ISO 22000:2018 for the La Bang facility (GOODVN91025.FSMS), food safety licence 14/2025/UBND-NNMT-TNg, registered planting-area code |
| Packing | 100 g and 200 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. |
How to use
- 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.
