Nụ Trà Hoa (Ancient Tea Flower Buds)
Not a leaf tea at all, but the flower buds of mature tea plants: sweet, caffeine-light and easy to drink in the evening.
Ancient Tea Flower Buds at a glance
Ancient Tea Flower Buds (Nu Tra Hoa) is made from unopened tea flower buds, picked by hand from mature tea plants 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 pale gold, with honey and light flowers on the nose; in the mouth, soft, sweet, no astringency at all.
The gardens are farmed to 6 Không 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), 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 Ancient Tea Flower Buds
Aroma is the whole point of a scented tea, so keep the water off the boil at 80-85 C and keep the steeps short. Rinse briefly, then 20-25 seconds for the first infusion. A tea scented with real flowers still carries its perfume into the third and fourth infusion; one that is merely flavoured loses it after the first.
Where Ancient Tea Flower Buds sits in the TRAVINA range
Ancient Tea Flower Buds belongs to the Flower 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.
Every photograph on this page was taken at our own cooperative in Dai Tu, Thai Nguyen. Real leaf, real packaging, no stock images.
Benefits
- Taste: soft, sweet, no astringency at all.
- Aroma: honey and light flowers.
- Liquor: pale 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.
Specifications
| Product name | Ancient Tea Flower Buds (Nu Tra Hoa) |
|---|---|
| Type | Tea flower buds |
| Grade | Flower buds of old tea plants |
| Picking standard | unopened flower buds picked by hand from mature tea plants |
| Ingredients | 100 percent dried tea flower buds |
| 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 | Paper box |
| 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, then pour the water away.
- Use 8 to 10 g of leaf for one standard pot.
- Water at about 75 to 80 C so the flower aroma is not burnt off.
- First infusion 20 seconds, then add 10 seconds each time. Two to three infusions.
- Do not over-steep. Scented tea turns bitter faster than plain green tea.
