The FMC

Enjoy with special friends as an exciting aperitif or with spiced dishes, even mild seafood/shellfish or curries. Great with exotic Eastern spiced foods.

Hand selected Chenin Blanc – primarily from low yielding, old bush vines (planted in 1974).  Harvested at full maturity.  

Maturation on the lees – total of 12 months in the barrel.

Natural wild yeast fermentation in new French oak 400L barrels.  Due to repetitive harvesting some botrytis is always present.  

In 1993 hospitality industry veteran Ken Forrester and his wife Teresa purchased the historic Scholtzenhof estate nestled at the base of the Helderberg in Stellenbosch. Originally established in 1689 as Zandberg the property is one of the oldest wine farms in the Cape. Ken enlisted the help of his winemaker friend Martin Meinert in replanting and revitalizing the vineyards with an aim to craft a white wine that could rival any in the world! And so it was that Ken Forrester Vineyards was established with a focus on Chenin Blanc production.