RIKARD @ NIGHT MARKETS: it’s peak harvest for team RIKARD and Orange FOOD week commences this Friday 20th March with the night markets! 🥂

From 5.30-8.30pm at Robertson Park, we’ll be pouring your favourite RIKARD Wines, including our black labels.
See you there!

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Vintage 2026 @ RIKARD: snips are out for Pinot picking. Great days on the edge of the mountain at 1080m above sea level.

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Vintage 2026 @ RIKARD: pick and press of 777 Pinot Noir from our Resurrection vineyard.
We’ll meet again in 10 years as sparkling!

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Vintage 2026 @ RIKARD: let’s do it - first pick and press.
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Vintage 2026 @ RIKARD: first pick, harvest has commenced.
A perfect morning at our La Cloche vineyard picking P58 Clone Chardonnay. A small crop of high quality fruit which we’ll use for sparkling base.

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Protecting the Pinot @ RIKARD: the grapes are ripening nicely - so say the birds!
There will be no avian lunch to be had here at our La Cloche vineyard… We’re bringing out the nets.
Every grape is sacred!

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Almost vintage @ RIKARD: we’re just past veraison in our La Cloche vineyard.

The vast majority of the fruit have now developed some colour and are accumulating sugar. Despite the dry conditions, everything looks really healthy and we’re headed for a high quality harvest.

...This is MV6 clone of Pinot Noir. Known for its thicker skins and higher acid, in our region it provides sour cherry characters, fresh acid backbone and a bit of tannin structure. It’s one of 6 clones in our arsenal of components and we’re looking forward to #vintage2026

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Lab days @ RIKARD: the UV is high in the last ripening days of summer, so we’ve retreated to the lab.

A final look at the 2024 Chardonnays, Pinot Noirs and Malbec before preparing them for bottling. This is our last chance to make any micro adjustments... though the feeling in the room ...is that they’re spot-on and ready to go as is. We call this active decision making to do nothing - also known as #minimalintervention

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VINTAGE 2026 PREPARATION @ RIKARD: it’s looking like harvest will commence mid-February and we’re in full winery prep mode. Clearing space, emptying tanks by bottling wines, cleaning and tinkering - there’s much to do.
Winemaking is as much a science as it is an art and in these pics, our... assistant winemaker Tim, has made preparation look like art too.

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