Yellow Tail Pure Bright Pinot Grigio Australia White Wine

Pinot Grigio and Pinot Gris name the same white grape, and official guides note that the Grigio wording often signals the lighter, crisper style, describing pear, apple and citrus. The Australia that follows it is the country-level geographical indication, a registered name stretching from cool maritime sites to warm inland districts, so it settles where the wine is from without saying how warm the vineyard was. The one producer fact in our file comes from the company's own telling: Casella Family Brands, a family company based in Yenda, New South Wales, says it launched Yellow Tail in 2001.

The rest of the file is numbers. The ratings run 351 deep, heavier than nearly any other total in the catalog, with a 4.49 average trailing the 4.71 median for the wines we rate. The price keeps it with the least expensive whites we track: $8.99 to $11.99 across five stores, last checked August 12, 2026.

Yellow Tail's own product page places this bottle in its Pure Bright line and gives specific numbers: 8.5 percent alcohol, a quarter lower than the standard Yellow Tail Pinot Grigio by the producer's own account, with 80 calories in a 5-ounce serving. The Pure Bright range's shared marketing page backs that up, promising "85 calories or less per 5oz serve" across the line under the tagline "Big taste, light everything else." The producer describes this wine's flavor as "bursting with apple, pear and passionfruit," in keeping with the citrus-and-stone-fruit profile the grape guides already place on a Grigio-style Pinot Grigio. Behind the brand, Casella Family Brands traces its roots to Filippo and Maria Casella, who left Sicily for Yenda, New South Wales; the company's own pages disagree on the year, naming both 1969 and 1957, and credit John Casella's 1995 arrival with the push that led to Yellow Tail's 2001 launch.

Our call: a case-buy candidate for anyone who wants the low price paired with a lighter pour, since the producer states this Pure Bright bottling runs 8.5 percent alcohol and 80 calories a serving, a quarter less alcohol than the standard Yellow Tail Pinot Grigio; it also carries one of the largest rating counts in our coverage and sits among the least expensive whites we track. Pass if you want a score above the middle of the pack, because one of the larger rating pools we track averages out below the middle of the rated wines we cover.

The Grocery Store Wine Desk · written Aug 17, 2026 from our research file for this wine. Numbers reflect our latest checks.