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!
Riga Wine & Champagne takes place two times a year – in Spring and in Fall. Since our foundation in 2012 we have created numerous world-class tastings, masterclasses and dinners, established Latvia’s first competition of World wines judged by an international Jury headed by Michael Schuster, initiated the most anticipated tastings like Audi Bubble Parade, TOP 100 Wines + Chefs, Champagne Gala Dinner, EAT DRINK VOTE by Electrolux, as well as created an annual Wine of the Year guide aimed at Latvia’s wine lovers. In 2018 we also created the Baltic Wine List Awards in association with Cross Keys Gin to find out the best and most wine-lover friendly restaurants and bars in Riga, Vilnius, Tallinn.
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 - long-time friends Peter Liem (champagneguide.net), Michael Schuster, Andreas Larsson (World’s best sommelier 2007), and some of the world’s best known eksperts like Ian d’Agata, Richard Juhlin, John Kapon, Andrew Jefford, Mark Andrew MW, Essi Avellan MW, Michael Sager, our own Raimonds Tomsons (Europe’s best sommelier 2017) to name just a few.
We’ve had the pleasure to welcome W. Brundlmayer, 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 Peters (Ch. Pierre-Peters), Laurent Fresnet (Ch. Henriot), Christophe Constant (Ch. Paul Bara), Frederic Panaiotis (Ch. Ruinart), Adrien Dhondt (Ch. Dhondt-Grellet), Pascal Agrapart (Ch. Agrapart), Francis Tribaut (Ch. Lallier), Catherine Curie (Ch. Piper-Heidsieck) and other leading producers and wine-makers.
NECom agency and its boss Aigars Nords is behind Riga Wine & Champagne. We are one of the leading marketing and sponsorship agencies in Latvia, and we love what we do!
Aigars Nords, founder of Riga Wine & Champagne, has acquired the WSET diploma, visited countless wine regions, participated in harvests and even ran the Medoc marathon. Regularly writes about wine for the leading publications.
Riga Wine & Champagne would not be possible without the support of our partners. Our most sincere thanks go to Rietumu Banka, Audi Latvija, Spice, Liebherr, as well as the importers of wine and champagne!
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