See you on November 23!
The annual Top 100 Wines + Chefs Parade, serving the best whites, sparklers, champagnes, reds and fortifieds will be entertaining us on November 23 at Hanzas Perons!
In collaboration with Rietumu Bank, we are enhancing the festival this autumn with the first La Festa del Barolo dinners, which will bring together fans of Italy's wine king on November 22 at Valters Zirdziņš's restaurant B7. We will wrap everything up with the beloved Chablis lunch-dinner on Sunday, November 24.
This year, in collaboration with Liebherr, we will once again recognize restaurants with the best wine and drink menus in the Baltics, and for the first time, we are adding something new to the competition – the Top 50 Baltic Sommeliers Award. We invite you to vote for your favorites every day until the award ceremony in November!
Can’t wait to see you,
Riga Wine & Champagne team.
Riga Wine & Champagne festival is the largest and most decadent celebration of champagne, fine wine and food in the Baltic countries! Our mission is to spread the message of all things gourmet, while forming the reputation of Riga as the tastiest Baltic capital.
Since our foundation in 2012 (with a remarkable Peter Liem’s champagne masterclass) we have created numerous world-class tastings, masterclasses and dinners. We have established Latvia’s first competition of world wines judged by an international Jury headed by Michael Schuster & Andrew Jefford, and initiated the most anticipated tastings like Bubble Parade and TOP 100 Wines + Chefs.
Our annual Wine of the Year guide awarding Bronze, Silver and Gold medals to world wines imported in Latvia has become the most sought-after guide for Latvia’s wine lovers. In 2018 we also created the Baltic Wine & Drinks Awards - in association with Liebherr the Awards showcase the best and most wine-lover friendly restaurants and bars, the best wine lists of Riga, Vilnius, Tallinn. In 2024 we kicked-off our non-wine adventure Riga Whisky & Friends Festival – its inaugural edition took place in Riga Circus!
Riga Wine & Champagne festival welcomes around 2500 foodies & wine lovers every year.
We are very proud of the fact that some of the world’s most notable authors, experts and producers have visited Riga and are eager to visit us again: Peter Liem (champagneguide.net), Michael Schuster, Andrew Jefford, Ian d’Agata, Richard Juhlin, John Kapon, Mark Andrew MW, Essi Avellan MW, Michael Sager, Andreas Larsson, and our own Raimonds Tomsons (Europe’s Best Somm ‘17, World’s Best Somm ‘23) to name just a few.
We’ve had the pleasure to welcome W. Bründlmayer, Jean-Hervé Chiquet (Ch. Jacquesson), Charles Philipponnat (Ch. Philipponnat), Michel Drappier (Ch. Drappier), Mireia Torres (Jean Leon), Pierre-Emmanuel Taittinger (Ch. Taittinger), Gilles de la Bassetiere (Ch. De Venoge), Rodolphe Péters (Ch. Pierre-Péters), Laurent Fresnet (RIP), Christophe Constant (Ch. Brice), Frédéric Panaïotis (Ch. Ruinart), Adrien Dhondt (Ch. Dhondt-Grellet), Pascal Agrapart (Ch. Agrapart), Francis Tribaut (Ch. Lallier), Thomas & Laurent Champs (Ch. Vilmart), Catherine Curie (Ch. Piper-Heidsieck) and other leading producers and wine-makers.
Who’s behind all of this? It’s NECom agency, the leading event marketing and sponsorship agency in Latvia, and its boss Aigars Nords, founder of Riga Wine & Champagne!
Aigars Nords holds the WSET Diploma, has visited countless wine regions, participated in harvests, ran the Médoc marathon, and published an all-time best-selling book about wine in Latvian “Vīns un Nords”. Regularly writes about wine for the leading publications, like magazine “KLUBS”.
Riga Wine & Champagne would not be possible without the support of our partners. Our most sincere thanks go to Rietumu Banka, Spice, Liebherr, as well as the leading importers of wine and champagne!
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