See you at the Top 100 Wines & Chefs Parade on 22 November!
Taste the standouts from the “Wine of the Year” 2025 lineup—almost two hundred stars, including 30 Gold wines and champagnes, 7 Fine Wine winners, and a hefty haul of Silver wines and bubbles that triumphed across categories—on 22 November at Hanzas Perons!
As always, you’ll be in great company: jury chair Andrew Jefford, world champion Raimonds Tomsons, festival founder Aigars Nords, and Riga & Latvia’s most passionate wine lovers, gourmands, and top chefs.
Liebherr is curating a fine slate of masterclasses for 22 November, and our great friends at Rietumu Bank are hosting a series of exceptional dinners led by Andrew Jefford starting 20 November.
Hurry—grab your tickets to the Top 100 Wines & Chefs Parade at Hanzas Perons, and dive into the full competition results at rigawinechampagne.lv as well as in the October issues of SANTA and KLUBS.
P.S. Rest of the Rietumu Bank dinners with Andrew Jefford on 21, and 23 November will be announced very soon!
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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