# Franc About Wine: Specialist Wholesale and Imports

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## Pages
- [Our Portfolio \- Italy](https://francaboutwine.com/our-portfolio-italy/)
- [Our Portfolio \- Australia](https://francaboutwine.com/our-portfolio-australia/)
- [Our Portfolio \- France](https://francaboutwine.com/our-portfolio-france/)
- [Our Team](https://francaboutwine.com/team/)
- [Producers](https://francaboutwine.com/producer/)

## Products
- [Unico Zelo Esoterico Spice Blend 2024](https://francaboutwine.com/product/unico-zelo-esoterico-spice-blend/): What is Esoterico? A wonderfully delicious and genuinely affordable ‘dip your toe in Orange’ wine from Unico Zelo\. A Zibibbo blend fermented on skins for 14 days\. Half of the wine is left in tank whilst the second half is patiently left to age in a 3500 litre foudre for 10 months\. Bottled unfined and unfiltered\.

This wine never fails to take me back to when I first met Brendan \& Laura and they outlined their passionate mission to try and support a grower so he wouldn’t pull out his incredible old bush vine Zibibbo planted in the Riverland who just wasn’t getting any love for his grapes except for cask wine production\. They saw first hand the quality of the fruit and set out to try and find a way to buy all the fruit from his vineyard, not just to save the vines but to find a way to pay him a far better price for his grapes\. After a making/bottling these grapes in various guises Unico Zelo created Esoterico, a skin contact expression of the fruit from this vineyard and it has been a tremendous success\. 7\-21 days on skins \(variety dependent\) maturation in stainless \& foudre for 12 months on fine lees, before racking to stainless for further maturation prior to botting

 
- [Ten Minutes by Tractor 10X Chardonnay 2026](https://francaboutwine.com/product/ten-minutes-by-tractor-10x-chardonnay/): The 2025 10X Chardonnay is sourced from vineyards across the Mornington Peninsula\. The 2025 vintage saw the broadest selection of fruit, with grapes coming from Osborn, Hunts Road, Mills, McCutcheon,Judd, Wallis and Gabrielle vineyards\.

All fruit was handpicked and hand sorted, refrigerated overnight to reduce core temperature and to reduce the possibility of oxidation/over extraction of phenolics\. The bunches are pressed whole into stainless steel tanks and allowed to settle before being racked off to French Oak barriques and Puncheons for wild fermentation\. Some battonage occurred across different barrels to add texture and mid palate weight\.

The wine spent 5 months in barrel \(10% new\) before being blended, a light filtration occured before being bottled\.
- [Usher Tinkler Rebirth Shiraz PF 2025](https://francaboutwine.com/product/usher-tinkler-rebirth-shiraz-pf/): Preservative free – No fining – No filtration – Vegan – Sustainably farmed – Organic practise\. The second instalment to our natural wine portfolio; an organic, basket pressed Shiraz\. It is produced off our organic old vine Shiraz, planted in 1968\. Hand\-picked and destemmed, basket pressed and aged in old French oak barrels for 3 months\. Intense mulberry flavours with ripe, rich tannins\. Decant this wine to open up the bouquet and enjoy it’s blackberry aromatics\.
- [Yelland \& Papps Vin De Soif Rouge 2025](https://francaboutwine.com/product/yelland-papps-yp-grenache-blend-vds/): Sourced from old\-vine vineyard sites across the Barossa, the Vin de Soif is a ‘Barossan Sub\-Regional Composition’, with an average vine\-age of 87 years\.

A blend of Grenache 70%, Mataro 25% and Carignan 5%, its all about thirst quenching, soft and juicy drinkability\. Hand\-harvested, wild yeast ferment with a proportion of whole bunches and extended skin contact before 20 months in old, seasoned French oak barrels\.
- [Eleni \& Edouard Vocoret Chablis 1er Cru Forets 2023 150cl Magnum](https://francaboutwine.com/product/eleni-edouard-vocoret-chablis-1er-cru-les-forets-2023-magnum/): The 1er Cru Les Forêt, part of the Montmains hill, has long been a name of prestige – thanks in no small part to iconic bottlings from Dauvissat\. Vocoret farms three small plots here, totalling 0\.91 hectares, planted in 1971 and 1980, giving vines with an average age of around 50 years\. With a southeast exposition and classic Kimmeridgian soils, this site produces wines that Edouard Vocoret characterises as “straighter and more austere,” compared to neighbouring Butteaux\.

Wild\-fermented in steel and matured for 12 months in seasoned barriques, the Les Forêt balances power and restraint, with citrus and pear fruit lifted by a strong mineral edge\. Structured yet elegant, it has the energy to evolve beautifully with a few years of cellaring\.

“\.\.\.airy nose with citrus rind, pear, algae and brine\.\.\. impressively concentrated flavors coat the palate with sappy dry extract\.\.\. excellent power on the clean, dry and sneaky long finale\.\.\. should amply repay medium\-term cellaring\.”\<strong\> – SWEET SPOT – OUTSTANDING, 91–93 points, Burghound\</strong\>

## Portfolio
- [Fletcher](https://francaboutwine.com/portfolio/fletcher/)
- [Brash Higgins](https://francaboutwine.com/portfolio/brash-higgins/)
- [Ten Minutes by Tractor](https://francaboutwine.com/portfolio/ten-minutes-by-tractor/)
- [Unico Zelo](https://francaboutwine.com/portfolio/unico-zelo-adelaide-hills/)
- [Yelland And Papps](https://francaboutwine.com/portfolio/yelland-and-papps-barossa/)

## Testimonials
- [Rebecca Lines, Co\-owner and Sommelier, Tequila Daisy](https://francaboutwine.com/testimonial/rebecca-lines-banksii/)
- [Seamus Brandt, Sommelier, Bennelong](https://francaboutwine.com/testimonial/seamus-brandt-bennelong/)
- [Paul Pujol, Winemaker, Prophet’s Rock](https://francaboutwine.com/testimonial/paul-pujol-prophets-rock/)

## Categories
- [News](https://francaboutwine.com/category/news/)

## Product categories
- [All Products](https://francaboutwine.com/product-category/all/)
- [New arrivals](https://francaboutwine.com/product-category/new-arrivals/)
- [New Arrivals](https://francaboutwine.com/product-category/new/)
- [Limited Release](https://francaboutwine.com/product-category/limited-release/)

## Countries
- [Australia](https://francaboutwine.com/country/australia/)
- [France](https://francaboutwine.com/country/france/)
- [Italy](https://francaboutwine.com/country/italy/)
- [New Zealand](https://francaboutwine.com/country/new-zealand/)
- [Germany](https://francaboutwine.com/country/germany/)

## Regions
- [South Australia](https://francaboutwine.com/region/south-australia/)
- [Burgundy](https://francaboutwine.com/region/burgundy/)
- [Victoria](https://francaboutwine.com/region/victoria/)
- [Piedmonte](https://francaboutwine.com/region/piedmonte/)
- [Mornington Peninsula](https://francaboutwine.com/region/victoria/mornington-peninsula/)

## Varietals
- [Pinot Noir](https://francaboutwine.com/varietals/pinot-noir/)
- [Chardonnay](https://francaboutwine.com/varietals/chardonnay/)
- [Riesling](https://francaboutwine.com/varietals/riesling/)
- [Merlot](https://francaboutwine.com/varietals/merlot/)
- [Cabernet Sauvignon](https://francaboutwine.com/varietals/cabernet-sauvignon/)

## Wines
- [Red](https://francaboutwine.com/wine/red/)
- [White](https://francaboutwine.com/wine/white/)
- [Rosé](https://francaboutwine.com/wine/rose/)
- [Our Christmas Selection](https://francaboutwine.com/wine/our-christmas-selection/)
- [Sparkling](https://francaboutwine.com/wine/sparkling/)

## Producers
- [Ten Minutes by Tractor](https://francaboutwine.com/producer/ten-minutes-by-tractor/)
- [Unico Zelo](https://francaboutwine.com/producer/unico-zelo/)
- [Mulline](https://francaboutwine.com/producer/mulline/)
- [Brash Higgins](https://francaboutwine.com/producer/brash-higgins/)
- [L\.A\.S\. Vino](https://francaboutwine.com/producer/las-vino/)

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