It’s Champagne time!
In collaboration with our great friends & supporters – Spice, Liebherr, and Lexus Riga Airport – we are making the annual champagne festivities in March a truly grand affair!
Our first surprise is a spectacular Epic Rosé tasting, where, together with the Truffle Pig team, you will for the first time be treated to such an exquisite and seductive selection of rosé champagnes!
The Champagne Gala Dinner (Bring me Champagne when I’m thirsty!) at Barents is also going to be unforgettable – during this multi-course dinner, you will be entertained by Champagne cult personalities, winemakers, growers, owners, and ambassadors who have graced the festival with their presence!
New to the festival is Chefs + Champagne, a symposium on the "marriage" of fine food and champagne – and we are offering you, dear champagne lovers, a few tickets to this gourmet experience!
Attending the Baltic's grandest Bubble Parade at Hanzas Perons is, shall we say, a must?!
We will conclude the festivities with Size Matters, the harvest celebration of three exceptional Champagne growers – Geoffroy, Tarlant, and Agrapart. The winemakers themselves will treat you to rare and unattainable magnums from their cellars!
And that's not all! The official after-parties will be curated by Truff le Pig – so let’s get together every evening (starting from Wednesday) for a champagne themed party at the city's most stylish wine bar!
Can’t wait to meet you all,
Riga Wine & Champagne
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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