VINTAGE 2025 @ RIKARD: sunrise and Riesling.
Returning to our resurrection vineyard for a beautiful start to the day and hand picking Riesling. 10kg lugs, straight to press in the winery - the fruit looking its finest and our biggest crop to date from this vineyard, sitting pretty at 1070m ...above sea level.

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A SMALL BATCH OF THE BEST PEOPLE @ RIKARD: meet our assistant winemaker, Tim.

Clocking up three vintages at RIKARD, Tim is loving the colour and fruit intensity of the Pinot Noir that has just been picked from our own vineyards which is shining bright in the winery for vintage 2025.
...Tim’s starter career was in sound engineering, but the winemaking calling was too strong..

When did you know you wanted to working be in wine? When I was scraping an open fermenter down the hallway of our teeny terrace in Enmore, Sydney. Foot Plunging with the creaking floorboards beneath to make 100 litres of MV6 Pinot Noir which my wife and I aptly named Pinotdestructo. Years later we packed ourselves and our toddler into a Thrifty Van and headed to Orange.

What’s your favourite wine moment in time?
Took a leap and trusted our number one search engine for the closest recommended wine shop in Bangkok a few years back. Running the gauntlet in clogs, a singlet and shorts and finding myself at the Oriental Marigold Hotel where I found a Latour - Giraud Mersault, which was a perfect pairing with fresh prawn street wontons.

What do you love about being part of the Rikard team?
Like all great wines we balance each other out.

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A SMALL BATCH OF THE BEST PEOPLE @ RIKARD: this vintage we’re introducing you to our team, just in case we haven’t already met… We like to think of ourselves as a small batch of the best people, with a passion for making small batches of the best wines. So first up are the creators and owners... of RIKARD - Will and Kimberley.

Will - winemaker, ideas man and husband to - Kimberley, general and all the details manager, also a veterinarian.

How many vintages have you been at RIKARD?
11 RIKARD vintages and a total of 26 vintages as a winemaker and wine widow respectively.

For vintage 2025 what are you looking forward to?
We’re excited about producing 100% of RIKARD wines grown from vineyards that we own or manage. This is our first year having this opportunity and the first year our new vineyard planted in 2019 has come to harvest.

How did you get your passion for wine? For Will at age 19, a solo road trip to wine regions around Australia and for Kimmy, marrying a winemaker.

Do you have a favourite wine or moment in wine?
Will - the first ever trophy winning wine I made, was a Chardonnay in the Hunter Valley in 2009. I kept a bottle, wrote a love note on the label for Kimberley and we will open it together one day.
Kimberley - starting a small wine business together with my husband, based on a passion for making exceptional wines in a wine region that we love and making it work for 10 years (so far).
We’re proud to be first generation winemakers, creating an iconic legacy for our kids.

What’s the best thing about the RIKARD team?
I love that on many days, it doesn’t seem like work.
The team are fun and passionate about what they do.
I love that we have a tight knit gang that is great at enthusing each other about making great wine.
Everyone brings something unique and interesting to the table from their previous experiences, be it overseas vintages, sommelier careers, a passion for regenerative viticulture or interesting non-wine backgrounds. We all are open to and love learning new things about the world of wine.
Celebrating 10 years of RIKARD never looked so good.

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VINTAGE 2025 @ RIKARD: having a grape time!
Back at our resurrection vineyard 1070m above sea level to pick Pinot Noir on the first day of autumn that felt like summer!

Hand picking perfect bunches from the early morning and out of the heat for hand sorting for the afternoon.

...A small batch of the best people making small batches of the best wines! 🍇🍷❤️

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BLEND IT @ RIKARD: BEST DAY OF THE YEAR! 🍷
2024 Pinots looking great! So many vineyards, picks and clones to choose from. Componentry is king 🤴

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VINTAGE 2025 @ RIKARD: the first Pinot Noir pick at our resurrection vineyard.
Sitting at 1070m above sea level, we’re seeing the fruits of our labour after years of bringing this vineyard back to life.
A glorious day in the vines on the edge of Gaanha bula. There’s no place we’d ...rather be.

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These last days of summer are calling for the 2023 RIKARD Riesling!!

Ranked number 3 in NSW by @therealrvw - our 2023 RIKARD Riesling shows fruit driven and floral characters in the lime and citrus blossom spectrum.

Dry, precise and pretty in youth, age worthy and complex ...underneath. Purity of acid and freshness is important, as is youthful drinkability.


2023 was a long cool season – ideal for fine-boned, elegant and pretty styles of Riesling.

Harvest was 4-6 weeks later than average and this allowed us the luxury of “hang-time” of fruit on the vine, resulting in a broad array of flavour spectrums and ripeness in our vineyards.

Usually, we’d pick our fruit based on sugar ripeness and flavour, but in 2023 we enjoyed the luxury of basing our picking decisions upon acid ripeness, to pick the fruit when the acid had dropped enough to make the ideal wine.

Whilst the weather held off and the vine canopy was healthy, this pushed the physiological ripeness beyond the usual citrus spectrum into a more sweet-smelling musk and stone fruit spectrum and gave us a better, fuller balance of flavour.

Available online or at the cellar door.

If you’re in Orange the 2023 RIKARD Riesling is available to buy local from @fermentwinecentre @thelanecellars @orangecellars

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VINTAGE 2025 @ RIKARD begins at home. It’s been five years patiently waiting for our La Cloche vineyard to grow up and today we picked our first Chardonnay (P58 clone) fruit - commencing harvest for this year!!

The weather gods gave us a picture perfect day in the vineyard, with the the ...whole crew beaming - like the days we planted out this vineyard with the help of family, friends and some of our wine club members - harvesting the first ever crop is something we’ll never forget.

A little bit of cab mac in the winery and this fruit is destined for a super small batch of Blanc de Blancs - so we’ll be waiting another 5+ years to taste the fruits of our labour.

We are 10 years old this year, making our first RIKARD wine in 2015 - raise a glass with us to celebrate the perfect birthday present and decade of doing what we love! 🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂

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As we approach harvest for vintage 2025, the grapes are becoming delicious and the birds are eating what should become our wine.
One of many bird deterrent strategies is to employ our newest staff members, these three American Bald Eagles to dance above the fruit.

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