BLEND IT LIKE RIKARD is on again this October, part of the Orange Wine Festival.
Book your place for a winemaking workshop with the RIKARD team - where you’ll become a winemaker for the day! You’ll have access to 2026 RIKARD wine from our barrels and tanks, equipment, guidance and insight ...on the samples and blending tips to make your own two unique wines.
Decide your blend and wine label and we’ll bottle your Riesling and Pinot Noir for you to take home and enjoy or cellar.

This is our 3rd year Blending it Like RIKARD and we love sharing our winemaking tips, ideas and current vintage in development at this immersive event.

Saturday 24th October - 2-5pm.

Link in bio - events page on our website to book your seat at the table.

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NEW RELEASE: 2024 RIKARD MALBEC. 🍷
Introducing our first ever single-varietal Malbec.

Our orange labelled blend allows us the opportunity to showcase the varietal diversity that the Orange wine region can produce.
An ever changing and evolving blend, each year we have the luxury... of choosing our own combination of traditional Bordeaux varieties according to what the season best produces.

Each variety brings its own strengths to the blend and the challenge is to marry them together harmoniously and produce the most complete wine possible.

For the first time since 2018, our orange label blend isn’t a blend! It’s a single varietal wine - 100% Malbec.
The fruit was hand harvested from the Kywarra vineyard at 860m above sea level and is the best parcel of grapes we’ve seen from this site.
So much so that we felt it deserved its own bottling!

Made with minimal intervention in the winery, we’ve given this wine ample time to come together with 18 months in French oak barriques and a further 4 months in tank.

The 2024 RIKARD Malbec is elegant and true to its roots and will age beautifully. A very promising variety for the region and one that we’re becoming very endeared with!

Available now to buy online, at the Cellar Door and releasing locally to have when you dine at @lucettadining @summerstwineroom @fiorinis.orange

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A lost vine.
Found this little Chardonnay clone 96 vine popping its head up in our nursery vineyard. We'll plant it & give it a chance to fulfil its potential as a part of the Chardonnay team.

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RIKARD @ HOTEL CANOBOLAS: we’re winery of the month @hotelcanobolas throughout July. 🍷

Meet the Maker - Friday 10th and Friday 24th July 6-8pm. RIKARD wines being poured all month and great food and fun being served always!

See you there!
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RIKARD @ LUCETTA DINING: Thursday 13th August, 6pm. Part of the Orange Winter Fire Festival 🔥.

Just FIVE TICKETS LEFT.

Join us at Lucetta Dining for a beautiful warning winter menu prepared by Chef Francesco, perfectly paired with RIKARD Wines and hosted by Will ...Rikard-Bell.
$180 per person, four courses and paired wines.

This event has almost sold old - we’re looking forward to seeing you there. 🍷
Link in bio.

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Vintage 2026 @ RIKARD: Last press of the year!
2026 Amboseli Shiraz pressed and showing incredible colour after three weeks on skins. It wraps up what has been one the great vintages.

Is this the end of harvest? Well, no. At RIKARD we consider it done when the last red goes to ...barrel...

That will be late this week! But it’s the last time we have to clean the press for a while... and that’s worth celebrating 🍾🍷

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NEWS @ RIKARD: THE REAL REVIEW TOP WINERIES AUSTRALIA 2026.
We’re proud to be part of The Real Review top wineries Australia 2026. 🥂
Thank you to our dedicated and passionate team - a small batch of the best people making small batches of the best wine.

We’re in good ...company in the Orange Wine region, with some of our friends and neighbours also on the list too. Cheers to that!

Thank you @therealrvw
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BELLS ON @ RIKARD 🥂: over the weekend we celebrated our 4th annual exclusive Bell Club members event at our winery!
This is an afternoon where we celebrate the end of vintage with our members with stories and tasting the vintage, pre-release wines and open the museum with a selection of back... vintage for our members.

It’s our chance to throw a party for our favourite people and thank you all for your support of RIKARD Wines.

We had a great day, with perfect weather and loved catching up with you all.

Special thanks to @moniquelovick.photography for capturing the afternoon!

Thanks for your support over the last decade and the years ahead.

- Will, Kimberley, Carine, Brenda and Aaron. 🍷

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Final pick of vintage 2026 @ RIKARD: Syrah! 🍷
We are adamant at RIKARD that the quality of our wines is a direct result of the quality of our work in our vineyards.
Today we brought the final parcel of 2026 vintage fruit into the winery - our single vineyard Amboseli Syrah - to cap off ...another extremely gratifying and high quality year.
It’s a huge relief to see it in the winery, safe and sound, looking amazing, along with all its other varietal siblings.

Cheers to vintage 2026 and our amazing team! A job well done!

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