Other · Yamanashi-ken · Japan
39 Junmai Daiginjo Sake
Scored from 739 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Other · Japan (1 wines).
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Tasting profile
A light, refreshing sparkling sake with soft bubbles and fruity notes of melon and a hint of cucumber, lifted by a subtle anise-like Pastis edge. Smooth and easy-drinking, it comes across as a lively picnic-style pour that pairs well with casual fare like Japanese BBQ.
Synthesized from 739Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“First ever sparkling sake and it’s great (from experience of one)”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
With its rice milling of 39%, it is a second best quality defined by its rice milling after 23%. It has smooth and mellow taste with refreshing finish. Please note that these tasting notes/scores are not intended to be exhaustive and in some cases they may not be the most recently published figures. However, we always do our best to add latest scores and reviews when these come to our attention. We advise customers who wish to purchase wines based simply on critical reviews to carry out further research into the latest reports.
39 Junmai Daiginjo Sake is a wine from Yamanashi-ken, Japan. It is made from Undefined.
739 Vivino reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 772 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this bottle against every other wine those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — four stars from someone who hands out fives means something very different from four stars from someone who rarely goes above three. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a star average.
- Global percentile
- Where 39 Junmai Daiginjo Sake lands against every wine we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — wines of the same type from the same country. A Chilean red is judged against Chilean reds, not against Champagne. Ranked against Other · Japan (1 wines).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each wine keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 739.
