VINTAGE 2025 @ RIKARD: young vines of 667 starting veraison!

We’ve been waiting very patiently since planting a few years ago and this year we’ll see our first harvest at La Cloche, our home vineyard, sitting pretty at 1040m above sea level on the edge of Gaanha-bula (Mt ...Canobolas).

Over the years as the Chardonnay and Pinot Noir has grown up at La Cloche - we’ve put all our efforts in to maintaining a healthy vineyard with a healthy ecosystem, giving us increased biodiversity, ready for the first of many harvests to come.

The weather has had some dark days the last few weeks, storms and extreme winds, but also gloriously hot sunshine for ripening.

Here comes vintage 2025!

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

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

Big thanks to Ben for sharing a review of your experience with us, we loved sharing our ...wines with you!

Be like Ben and 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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Days like this.
We’re very happy to be spending the day at our resurrection vineyard at 1080m above sea level. It’s been a great year for growth. Plenty of rain and sunshine.
We’re shoot thinning, desuckering and wirelfting to open the canopy up.
A big crop of Riesling and Pinot... Noir coming in vintage 2025!

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What a difference a year makes! Our resurrected vineyard high on Mount Canobolas (Gaanha Bula) looking glorious this summer. 2025 RIKARD Pinot Noir & Riesling on the way.

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RIKARD @ 2024 Sydney University Alumni Festival.
Both Will & Kimberley are Sydney University alumni and are honoured to be selected for the Creators & Innovators showcase at the festival.
Entry is free.
You’ll find us next to Archie Rose distillery stand at the
Sydney ...University Great Hall Cloisters.

Saturday 30th - November 11am - 6pm

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EV Charger @ RIKARD. When we built our winery in 2020, sustainability was a key ingredient. We installed 27KW of solar panels on the winery roof to power our winemaking operations.

We’ve just installed dual 22KW electric vehicle fast chargers to make our solar power go further. They’re... now available to use by our cellar door guests when you’re visiting the winery.

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RIKARD @ ZEST FEST - this Sat 2nd Nov from 3pm, we’ll be pouring your favourite wines at Robertson Park, while you enjoy live music, market stalls and more. The Rueben’s are headlining along with a line up of great musicians - and the tickets are FREE!!

You’ll need to book your free ...tickets - go to zeetfestorange.com.au to find out more! @zestfestorange

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What a day! Last Saturday we held our first ever Blend it like RIKARD event at the winery.

We had so much fun for the afternoon sharing details on how we blend the perfectly balanced wine and helping our guests to create their very own blends.

Everyone took home a bottle of their ...own uniquely blended Chardonnay and Pinot Noir which will cellar for up to 10 years.

We’re doing it all again this weekend and there are 3 seats available for this Saturday 26th of October.
Book online and join us in being a winemaker for the afternoon (2-5pm)!!

And thanks to Yeesum for the lovely feedback, some great pics and being an excellent winemaker for the day!

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In the vineyard: in our deep, fertile, basalt soils, vines so easily thrive.
Vineyards and planting density in Australia are still designed for tractors, not for vine vigour or fruit quality.
We want our vines to compete for nutrients and water, make the most of our soils and ultimately ...produce small crops of flavour-intense fruit.
So at our La Cloche vineyard we’ve planted 1000 Chardonnay vines at a Burgundy-esque 10,000 vines p/ha.

Looking forward to the results in a few years, we’ll work out the tractor bit later!

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