What’s up this season?
TOP 100 Wines + Chefs
Mark your calendars for November 20–22, when Riga Wine & Champagne returns in full force!
We kick off on November 20th at Hanzas Perons with Cookin’ with the Miles Davis Latvian All-Stars - a special musical wine dinner celebrating Miles’s centenary with five decades of jazz, a five-course feast by B7, and hand-picked wines by Vieta.
On November 21st, it’s time for the main event: Top 100 Wines + Chefs! Together, we’ll taste at least 150 laureates of the "Wine of the Year 2026" competition - gold and silver champagnes, whites, reds, and fortified wines from around the world. Ready? Masterclasses led by Andrew Jefford, Aigars Nords, and other luminaries, delicacies from Latvia’s best chefs, live shows, and great music await! Besides, Baltic Wine & Drinks Awards winners announced!
Then, on November 22nd, we close the weekend at B7 with Les Amis de Bordeaux: A Millennium Feast - the official founding of our Bordeaux lovers' brotherhood, featuring iconic 2000 vintage wines, Andrew Jefford, and chef Valters Zirdziņš.
And please don't forget that right alongside us, the Pink Noise Riga music festival will be lighting up the capital in November!
Riga – The Capital of Champagne!
When we started the festival back in 2012 with a Champagne masterclass by Peter Liem and Aigars Nords for a handful of Riga snobs, we had no idea that Riga Wine & Champagne would become such a significant champagne culture event – one that honors bubbles, chefs, sommeliers, gourmands, wine lovers, and gastronomy at such a high level outside of Champagne and France!
As the years have gone by, the event has become a destination for Baltic and European gourmands, and Riga (at least in the spring) has become the uncrowned capital of Champagne! The Riga Wine & Champagne festival's "Bubble Parade" is the most important champagne celebration in the Baltics – if you love bubbles, you must be in Riga in the spring!
The program for the annual "Bubble Parade" has expanded to a week-long format and is more spectacular than ever. We pop the corks on hundreds of excellent bubbles, continue to develop the Chefs + Champagne symposium where Latvia's best chefs and sommeliers "marry" champagne with gastronomy, and we host Champagne greats, cult winemakers, and sages like Peter Liem.
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We are proud of the wine lovers' guide created by Riga Wine & Champagne – the "Latvian Wine of the Year" competition, which we established together with Michael Schuster in 2014. The annual guide, chaired by Andrew Jefford, awards bronze, silver, and gold medals every year to world wines imported into Latvia, and has become one of the most sought-after points of reference for Latvian wine lovers.
Every autumn, we present the "Wine of the Year" laureates – silver and gold medalists – at TOP 100 Wines + Chefs, or the Grand Wine Parade. This has become the most anticipated event of the year for many wine lovers, offering the chance to taste the best champagnes, white wines, red wines, and fortified wines, while participating in masterclasses and "dates" with winemakers and the jury.
What else? In 2018, we also created the Baltic Wine & Drinks Awards and Top 50 Baltic Sommeliers. In collaboration with Liebherr, these annual awards highlight the best and most wine-lover-friendly wine restaurants and bars—in other words, the best wine lists in Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia.
And that's not all... in 2024, we began our adventures in the "non-wine" field. The Riga Whisky & Friends festival will delight us for its third season at the Riga Circus!
Who’s behind all of this?
NECom, one of the leading event agencies in the Baltics!
We have successfully developed the Rimi Riga Marathon, created campaigns for a series of leading Latvian companies, established the capital's music festival Pink Noise Riga, and tirelessly cultivated wine culture in the Baltics!
Our founder, Aigars Nords, was the first in the Baltics to obtain the highest WSET diploma in wine studies. He has traveled to countless wine regions around the world, finished the wine marathon in Médoc, and published the all time best-selling book on wine in the Latvian language – “Vīns un Nords” (Wine and Nords)!
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The most ambitious and delicious wine and champagne festival in the Baltic States!