Tasting: Yellowtail Pinot Grigio

Name: Yellowtail Pinot Grigio

Variety: Pinot Grigio

Region: Australia

Year: No vineyard year given

Price: $11.99

Wine Pro review: "Yellow Tail Pinot Grigio is an Australian dry white wine that is both fizzy and refreshing. Sourced from high-quality vineyards in Riverina and harvested at night to conserve pure flavors, Yellow Tail Pinot Grigio is zesty and passionate. It bursts with red apple, pear, and passion fruit flavors and makes the perfect partner on a warm summer evening."

Wine Folly: Australia does not have Pinot Gris noted as one of the wines to explore from this region, instead being more known for tawnys like the one I had in my 3 course meal blog. Nonetheless, yellowtail is a very broad wine company that makes a large variety of wines, and it does say that pinot gris makes up a small amount of the wine produced in Australia. Wine folly has notes of peach, lemon zest, and raw almond for pinot gris, and the only one of those I get from this wine is the lemon zest as it is more fruit forward but has more pear than peach tones. 

My Review: This is the wine I regularly share with my roommate and sadly she moved out this morning to go to her permanent job, so last night we bought a big bottle and talked about old times. This wine is a very simple, cheap, nice drink to have at the end of a long day with snack foods. I love having it with salty foods, tonight was potato chips and tzatziki sauce. A strong note of pear is what makes it so refreshing in my opinion, it's not the lightest wine I have had but it is pretty far up there, which is nice considering its 11.5%.