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“Another straight tea that I was excited to keep drinking. And here I thought I’d only ever appreciate flavored tea. At two minutes, there is only a slight bitterness – it’s mostly a smooth vegetal...” Read full tasting note
“Welp. This tea came out a while ago as part of the Spring “Garden to Cup” subscription box and I’ve sort of postponed writing the tasting note because I wanted to drink the tea again to have the...” Read full tasting note
“(DavidsTea 2022: 38) Yup, that’s right, I also can’t comment much on this one because I was eating something too strong. It was good, but I had a laugh reading my previous note for this tea...” Read full tasting note
How it tastes:
Traditional vegetal and nutty flavors leave a lasting impression.
This sumptuous blend of traditional Korean flavors marries notes that are both vegetal and nutty. Each cup is bursting with green herbs, cooked bamboo shoots and nutty aromas, leaving your palate enveloped in a wave of lasting taste. Sejak tea comes from shaded volcanic soil, resulting in a uniquely multifaceted flavor.
What makes it great:
• Both steamed and roasted, Korean teas are both vegetal and nutty in flavor.
• Ancient tea producing traditions make sejak one of the easiest-to-steep green teas we offer.
• Hand-picked in late April, our Korean Sejak comes from Jeju Island, one of Korea’s top 3 premium tea growing areas.
• Made with Yabukita, Geumgokrok and Hyeopsanhyang tea cultivars, the cup has a lasting and complex flavor.
Ingredients: Organic green tea from Korea
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.
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Teas UniqueAnother straight tea that I was excited to keep drinking. And here I thought I’d only ever appreciate flavored tea.
At two minutes, there is only a slight bitterness – it’s mostly a smooth vegetal cup that’s a bit grassy. Shared with my partner and double-steeped each round again. I think this could easily replace the Japanese Sencha I have in my stash as a favorite straight green.
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Welp.
This tea came out a while ago as part of the Spring “Garden to Cup” subscription box and I’ve sort of postponed writing the tasting note because I wanted to drink the tea again to have the flavours fresh in my mind since (because I don’t drink straight green teas much at all) it’s one of the few teas to come out from DT recently that I have fairly poor familiarity with. However, it’s been a couple weeks now and I’ve had ample opportunity to make another cup on one of the days I’ve been in office and I just… have not done that. So, we’re gonna go with my memory of it.
Firstly, I’ve had a couple people ask me if this is “new” or if it’s the same as DT’s old Korean Sejak. My answer is a somewhat confusing… kinda!? I mean, it’s the same production method/style as what DT carried in the past but it’s not technically the exact same tea. Straight/traditional teas are kinda weird like that when it comes to the variances from garden to garden or even production to production. So yeah, it tastes a little different from the old one and it tastes a little the same. If you’re gonna have a “main” takeaway difference, I guess the thing that might be worth noting is that the old one wasn’t organic but this new one is.
In terms of taste I am rarely the best equipped in the room to describe the taste of green tea. I find this one unpleasantly tastes of vegetal cooked greens, but that’s very much a me kind of bias. I also find it a little bit nutty and smoky, which are flavours I like more – but not as rich and intense here as I’d want them to be for my own tastes. I will say, I do like that’s it’s very different from the Japanese green teas that DT carries year round. More terroir diversity, please!
Friendly reminder that I do not numerically rate DAVIDsTEA blends as I’m currently employed there and it would be an obvious conflict of interest. Any blends you see with numerical ratings were rated prior to my employment there. These reviews are a reflection of my personal thoughts and feelings regarding the teas, and not the company’s.
(DavidsTea 2022: 38)
Yup, that’s right, I also can’t comment much on this one because I was eating something too strong. It was good, but I had a laugh reading my previous note for this tea (presumably a not-organic version?) where I thought the tea tasted like seaweed, and was not a fan. I expect a more favourable review when I try this again.
