What’s up this season?
Mark your calendars for November 21st, when at the Top 100 Wines + Chefs event, we will collectively taste at least one hundred and fifty laureates of the "Wine of the Year 2026" competition—gold and silver champagnes, whites, reds, and fortified wines from all over the world!
There will be no shortage of masterclasses led by Andrew Jefford, Aigars Nords, and other luminaries. There will be delicacies from Latvia's best chefs, shows, and great music! Not to mention special dinners, which we will announce a bit later!
Clear some space in your calendars right now for the 2027 Bubble Parade, taking place at Hanzas Perons on April 3, 2027!
And please don't forget that this year we will be hosting our third Riga Whisky & Friends festival at the Riga Circus (September 12), as well as the Pink Noise Riga music festival in April and November!
Cheers,
Riga Wine & Chamapgne 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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