Korean Sejak

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.

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.

Korean Sejak is different in many ways, and difficult to get the taste you want. I’ve been working on it for years. And I finally got the taste that I like.

This is recommended for everyone. Whether you’re a straight green tea lover, a starter with straight teas or a masters in the art of tea, it’s a must have. You don’t drink it for the mildness of the tea. The point of Korean Sejak is to drink it for the cleanness of it. If the water is too cold, it gets too vegetal. If the water is too hot, then it gets too dry and you don’t taste the cleanness at all.

With careful experiments, you can get the best tea out of this. Using large tea pots (for steeping space) and washing the tea (waking it up with a small splash of hot water) first makes a huge difference.

I experimented around 80 degrees Celsius. With not much steeping time. When it’s perfected and acquired the art of Korean Sejak, then it’s worth it. Give it a try! This specific tea is what got me into tea steeping!

I picked this tea up a few weeks ago out of curiosity. I have never tried any Korean teas and thought this might be a worthwhile adventure.

The first time I tried it I wasn’t a huge fan (I steeped it at too high of a temperature), but I tried it again at a lower temperature and it turned out pretty well. This tea is definitely different from most greens.

The tea is generally light. When you sip it you get a nice smooth vegetal taste followed by a slight bitterness that gives the tea some boldness. It has a nice saltiness to it as well, which goes well with any seafood.

Overall great tea. A little bit different and very delicate, but if you’re into try something new I would recommend it.

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.

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

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.

I decided to buy this tea because…..
1.) I need more straight teas
2.) Had it last year once when DT had their $1 straight tea promo and I remember liking it….what I liked about it, I didn’t remember. I just went on a whim c:

Dry….it has a very potent earthy nutty scent. The leaves are a dark smokey green and the shape of them is mostly curled, but at random. When steeping the aroma is warm and soothing for that of a green tea. The colour is a very pretty pale yellow-green. The taste of this tea is very sweet and nutty…also light and smooth. Maybe almost buttery? I like that it’s not very vegetal yet not too grassy like Japanese greens. It’s my first Korean green tea, and I must say I like it a lot c: I really appreciate that it can work for a second steeping too.

light earthy green flavour, not sweet at all, almost a teeny bit salty tasting? very fresh, tasty green tea

It’s an interesting sort of fusion like tea. I say interesting because it seems to be somewhere in the middle between Japanese seaweediness and Chinese mellowness and nuttiness. The dry leaves smell pleasant, almost smokey. Steeped it does have a bit of sea smell but if you’re careful with steeping and don’t overdo it, it tastes good. Oversteeping can bring nasty bitterness. Wouldn’t be #1 choice for green tea and I probably won’t buy it again but it’s an interesting tea indeed.

I made this tea for a cold beverage to have the next day.
It is bitter without an added sweetener so I added some honey and I do agree that the steep time should be less than 3min.
I do prefer the taste of it cold rather than hot.