FESTIVE SEASON @ RIKARD: What a year!
As we roll up (rather quickly) to the end of 2025, we’re thankful for a great vintage and the first harvest from our home vineyard La Cloche, winning Young Gun of Wine - Vigneron of the Year and celebrating a DECADE OF RIKARD.

Black Friday ...calls for RIKARD Black Labels and in more exciting news, we’re releasing two new sparkling wines next week!
We can guarantee your festive season wines (the perfect gift) will be delivered before Christmas for orders made before 13th December! Link in bio.

Thank you for celebrating throughout 2025 with us! 🥂

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🍋RIKARD @ ZEST FEST 2025: we can’t wait to see you in the heart of Orange this Saturday 1st November for the ultimate street party!
Live music all day with incredible local talent and head line acts like San Cisco, food and drinks - all at Robertson Park.

Tickets are free via ...zestfest.com.au

We’ll be pouring your favourite RIKARD Wines all day. See you there Orange!

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Vineyard management @ RIKARD: At 1040m above sea level, we’ve been shoot-thinning at our home vineyard La Cloche to balance fruit growth and increase light and air circulation to the canopy.
We’re also very happy to see some shoots in our Chardonnay vineyard planted @10,000 vine/ha.
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Blend it like RIKARD: last chance to book your place and be a winemaker for the day!

Join us this Saturday 25th Oct for an immersive blending workshop at the RIKARD winery.

With access to wine in barrel and tank from our 2025 vintage, lab equipment and guidance from Will and the ...RIKARD team - we’ll show you how we blend the perfectly balanced wine.

You’ll create your own blend and take home your two unique bottled and finished wines - one Riesling and one Pinot Noir which will cellar for up to 10 years.

A few places left - book now! Link in bio.

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RIKARD @ ROBERTSON PARK - Friday 17th October 🥂
The 2025 Orange Wine Festival begins with Night Markets at Robertson Park, Orange 5:30pm - 8:30pm.

We’ll be serving all your favourite RIKARD Wines - including new release 2023 RIKARD Chardonnay, 2023 RIKARD Black Label Pinot Noir ...and the 2022 RIKARD Cabernet Franc Merlot Malbec! 🍷

Want more RIKARD this wine festival?
Be a winemaker for the day and join us for a winemaking workshop - we’ll give you all the best components and show you how to blend your own two unique RIKARD Wines.
You’ll take home your Riesling and Pinot Noir to enjoy or cellar for up to 10 years.
A few seats are still available so book your place -
Sat 25th October 2-5pm - ticket link in bio.

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Budburst @ RIKARD: basking in the glory of our lovely Chardonnay vines and the welcoming of spring season.
We love being in the vineyard this time of year!

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Wine tasting experiences @ RIKARD are hosted by the makers of our wines, in the place that we make our wines… and we love what we do!

We’re open Friday afternoon 2-5pm and Sat & Sun 11am - 5pm for wine tasting experiences.

Thank you Mark for recently visiting us at the ...cellar door and sharing a review of your experience with us, Aaron loved sharing our wines with you!

Book ahead online to reserve a seat, call and let us know you’re coming or just show up - we’re looking forward to meeting you.

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Blend it like RIKARD: 2025 Orange Wine Festival events.
Fancy being a winemaker for the day?

We’ll show you how during our immersive blending workshop at the RIKARD winery.
Sat 25th October 2025.

With access to wine in barrel and tank from our 2025 vintage, lab ...equipment and guidance from Will and our RIKARD team - we’ll show you how we blend the perfectly balanced wine.

With all the components, you’ll create your own blend and take home your two unique bottled and finished wines - one Riesling and one Pinot Noir which will cellar for up to 10 years.

Limited places on Saturday 25th of October.

Book online and be a winemaker for an afternoon (2-5pm) with us. Link in bio.

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Pruning in the vineyard @ RIKARD:

Every year, we mark the winter solstice on the calendar with a big red circle to highlight that day of the year when we can finally move out of the winery and turn our attention towards setting up the vineyard for next vintage.

The vines are ...completely dormant and ready to be pruned (well before then) but this is a celebrated tradition - and so for almost a month now we’ve been pruning in the vineyards whenever the sun shines.

We all look forward to the bit of quiet time it affords us. The mindfulness of the task and the reconnection with nature. The accumulation of knowledge we gain and the ever deeper understanding of each of our sites that it brings.

We love the sense of renewal.
The chance to reset the vines for another season.
To create order out of chaos and to enjoy that feeling of hope and possibility about the future harvest.

It is still of course, winter in Orange.
So we work with feet wet, icy toes, sore knees and blistered hands. In the sleet and mud we endure the multiple cuts and wounds.

Three months of repetition, prolonged isolation and maybe, eventually, a bit of loneliness.

This is where you’ll find us until spring.

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