Champagne Gala Dinner

05.03.2017

Please start thinking of your special bottle to bring to the Gala Dinner now - the entrance ticket alone will not be enough to enter the Gala Dinner. Thank you and looking forward to welcoming you at the Gala Dinner!

A festive multicourse dinner, a celebration of Champagne, a real champagnelover’s «orgy»! The dinner will be accompanied by champagnes and stories of house owners and Peter Liem! In addition, we are kindly asking everyone to bring their own special bottles to be shared and enjoyed among the attending champagne lovers! A feast indeed!

«Champagne Gala Dinner» will be a festive multicourse dinner and a celebration of Champagne! The multi course dinner will be accompanied by champagnes and stories of Champagne house owners (Champagne Henriot, Champagne Piper-Heidsieck, and others TBD) and Peter Liem (champagneguide.net), Louis Roederer award recipient and one of the world’s greatest authorities on champagne. But that’s not all - in addition to great champagnes provided by the house owners and winemakers, we are kindly asking the guests to bring their own special bottles to be shared and enjoyed among the attending champagne lovers! A feast indeed!

Each of the attending winemakers will present several different champagnes along different courses, while the final courses of the dinner will be enjoyed together with the special and loved bottles brought and shared by the attending guests. Make sure you do not forget your special «Champagne Gala Dinner» champagne!  

Special guests: Laurent Fresnet (Cellar Master of Champagne Henriot, Sparkling Winemaker of the Year in 2016), a representative of Piper-Heidsieck winemaking team, as well as another Champagne house (to be announced). 

Dinner Chef: Māris Jansons, star-chef from restaurant «Bibliotēka No1» will prepare a special 6 course menu just for the event.

Dinner moderator: Peter Liem, www.champagneguide.net

When: March 5, 2017, Sunday, 16.00

Where: Restaurant Bibliotēka No.1, Tērbatas str. 2, Riga

Language: English

Ticket cost: EUR 199 + special «bring your own» champagne 

Attending winemakers in 2016 were Pierre-Emmanuel Taittinger (owner and president of Champagne Taittinger), Francis Tribaut (owner of Champagne Lallier), Eric Calzolari (Champagne Billecart-Salmon), Gilles de la Bassetiere (president of Champagne de Venoge) and in 2015 were Jean - Herve Chiquet (Jacquesson), Charles Philipponnat (Philipponnat), Michel Drappier (Drappier) presenting spectacular champagnes from their houses.

While the second half of the evenings saw an amazing collection of guests's champagnes, including, for example, Drappier Carte d`Or Brut 1979, Philipponnat Grand Blanc Brut 1983, Krug 1985, Duval Leroy Cuvee Des Roys 1986 MAGNUM, Noble Cuvee de Lanson Brut 1988, Drappier Carte d`Or Brut 1990 JEROBOAM, Pol Pol Roger Sir Winston Churchill 1990, Drappier Carte d`Or Brut 1995 MAGNUM, Bollinger Grande Annee 1996 JEROBOAM, Henriot Cuvee des Enchanteleurs Brut 1998, Pol Roger Sir Winston Churchill 1999, Philipponnat Clos des Goisses 2000, Jacquesson AY-Vauzelle Terme 2002, Dom Perignon 2004 MAGNUM, Jacques Selosse Brut Rose, Jerome Prevost La Closerie Les Beguines Extra Brut, Cedric Bouchard Roses de Jeanne Blanc de Noirs and others.