Trà Tấm Đinh Túi Lọc (Broken Needle Tea Bags)

Broken Needle Tea Bags at a glance

Broken Needle Tea Bags (Tra Tam Dinh Tui Loc) is made from the smaller pieces sifted out of the needle grade, from tea plucked by hand 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.

The dry leaf carries the blue-black sheen that marks good Thai Nguyen tea. In the cup it pours green gold, with young rice on the nose; in the mouth, clean and sweet, ready in two minutes.

Made from needle-tea leaf, this grade is clean and safe, but it is not sold as part of TRAVINA’s 6 Không line and it is not certified organic. What the cooperative does hold is VietGAP (DVCL-VG-TT-23-19-79), ISO 22000:2018 for the La Bang facility (GOODVN91025.FSMS), 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’s own facilities.

How to brew Broken Needle Tea Bags

Broken leaf gives up its flavour fast, so brew it short. Use 4-5 g for a 250 ml pot at 80-85 C and steep the first infusion only 15-20 seconds; any longer turns it harsh. The sachet version needs no pot at all: one sachet in a cup of hot water, taken out after a minute.

Where Broken Needle Tea Bags sits in the TRAVINA range

Broken Needle Tea Bags belongs to the Thai Nguyen Green Tea range. If you are comparing grades, the bud teas sit at the top of the ladder – see Tien Vua Needle Tea – while Premium Moc Cau Green Tea is the everyday benchmark most Vietnamese households drink. For gifting, the same leaves appear boxed in Tea Boxes and Gift Sets.

Wholesale and export

The cooperative sells 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 registered 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	Broken pieces sorted out of our bud and needle grades, packed in filter bags
Garden and site	Packed at the cooperative
Made by	Packing team
Dry leaf and cup	Infuses fast and keeps the character of the bud and needle grades; 1–2 minutes
Typical buyer	Hotels, offices, HoReCa, tea-bag private label

Documents: Broken needle tea is sorted out of our needle grade and has no report of its own; the needle-grade documents are lab report No. 78102025/KQKN dated 29 Oct 2025 (PDF) and product self-declaration No. 08/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. 78102025/KQKN – page 1

Lab report No. 78102025/KQKN – page 2

Product self-declaration No. 08/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.