Korean Sejak

Tea type
Green Tea
Ingredients
Green Tea
Flavors
Seaweed, Grass
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Loose Leaf
Caffeine
Medium
Certification
Not available
Edit tea info Last updated by sherapop
Average preparation
170 °F / 76 °C 2 min, 15 sec 8 g 17 oz / 514 ml

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  • “I’m pretty much over this tea. Too bad I have 1-2 cups left of it in my tin. :( I’ll probably focus on finishing it up, and then I’ll have to decide what green tea to fill it back up with (fill as...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Picked up a little $1 bag when I was pursuing the giant Perfect Mugs (on my Kissmas list ;) ). I found the flavour to be very mild, almost too mild for me. I didn’t find it bitter, but it was a bit...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Split a pot of this with my roommate tonight. If someone had told me that I was drinking steeped seaweed, I would 100% believe them – this tea tastes salty, a bit sweet and umami, and very marine....” Read full tasting note
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  • “I decided to grab a pack of this when Davids was having their $1 straight tea special. I figured it was a good opportunity to try something that I wouldn’t normally buy from Davids. I steeped it...” Read full tasting note
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Tea devotees rejoice!

Korean tea is exceptionally rare and difficult to find, and this one is worth the trouble. Grown in a monastic style garden in the Jiri Mountain slopes of Korea, this tea is lovingly tended by those who enter into a monk lifestyle to devote their lives to tea. The result is a tea that is unusually complex and pleasantly earthy. Count your blessings – each sip is divine salvation.

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DavidsTea is a Canadian specialty tea and tea accessory retailer based in Montreal, Quebec. It is the largest Canadian-based specialty tea boutique in the country, with its first store having opened in 2008.

63 Tasting Notes

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This has a beautiful bright green color. The dry leaves are small and brittle, with an earthy, vegetal scent. When steeped, they open up into large, brownish green leaves. They don’t smell particularly strong, although they certainly smell dark. The tea when brewed is vegetal and slightly sweet with little notes of honey toward the finish. I brewed this gong fu style, and the flavor just kept getting more and more complex.

Preparation
170 °F / 76 °C 0 min, 15 sec

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Finishing up the small bit I got of this and I’m realizing what it makes me think of. It really reminds me of a quality Genmaicha only without the toasted notes. Not my favourite green, but a lovely one for people just getting into straight teas, or who don’t want an overpowering flavour in their greens.

Preparation
165 °F / 73 °C 1 min, 45 sec

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16 tasting notes

STEEP TIME. 2 MINUTE MAX! keep it at that, it’s a beautiful, beautiful tea. complex, nutty and fragrant. I absolutely adore this tea. Second steep at 1 minute gives you the more astringent (but not at all in a bad way) cup that is SO delicious. Very picky tea when it comes to steeping however SO VERY WORTH IT. You do not need to add anything to this tea. it’s perfect as it is :)

Preparation
160 °F / 71 °C 1 min, 45 sec

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This was too intriguing to resist throwing into my last order.

Dry, it’s interesting; the leaves are all different sizes and shapes, some tightly rolled/curled, some not. It looks fairly different from the photo on DT’s site. It’s also a more uniform and somewhat brighter green. It smelled mild but toasty and a bit nutty.

It made a nice green-gold liquor, and the taste followed the dry aroma: mild, toasty. It reminds me quite a lot of fired senchas I’ve had. Very tasty and refreshing, but not radically different from others in my cupboard.

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My tea came from the Orient Express sampler (Korean Sejak, Gyokuro Yamashiro, Dragonwell).

Impressions on the first steep; sweet, delicate, slightly vegetal. Tea leaves smell sweet as well. The liquor is kind of a bright green color.

Second steep was much more vegetal, not sweet at all. Much more of a robust flavor. On inspection of the leaves, my husband remarked that it smells like fruit roll-ups (omg don’t ask me, I don’t know why he said that!)

Will I buy more of this tea? No, probably not. I’m not a big fan of green tea (I like it, but I don’t love it), so it has to really impress me to become a favorite. Overall I thought it was a pleasant green tea with a nice sweet flavor. Easy to enjoy and not too difficult to brew right.

Preparation
165 °F / 73 °C 2 min, 0 sec

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I like this, for a green tea. It’s definitely different—flavourful, with many different notes. I probably steeped it a little hot.

I think this is what ‘buttery’ really is. It’s also nice and earthy (though not vegetal), with a very subtle mineral taste. Although it’s becoming quite bitter as it cools—will have to make sure I user a cooler steep time in the future.

Preparation
185 °F / 85 °C 2 min, 0 sec

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The grassy flavor in this tea was too powerful. I steeped it in the proper temperature and time and it still was too overwhelming for me.

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3 tasting notes

The tea leaves themselves were curly, with some twigs mixed in. They smelled like sencha, but with an added note of spiciness. I liked the smell- as a former heavy coffee drinker, I like strong flavours.
After steeping, it creates a liquor very much like Japanese sencha, green and yellow, with a vegetal smell. Where it departs from that though, is an added note of chickweed. This made its way into the flavour of the tea itself, which was otherwise quite good. I suppose this is where people get seaweed from, which is an apt comparison.
Ultimately, I wouldn’t give this tea a very high score. Sencha and dragonwell are already much better teas, and sencha costs the same amount.

Preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 4 min, 30 sec

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210 tasting notes

Very nicely done, watch this one doesn’t get bitter though.

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4 tasting notes

My second tea that I’ve tried from Davids Tea and my second great review. This is the first Korean tea I have had. Japanese greens are my favorite and I thought that this was similar. It had the same seaweed, grassy taste but it was a little milder than say a Sencha. Overall very good.

Preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 1 min, 0 sec

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