Size Matters! It's Magnum Apéro!

Wednesday 25. February at 18:00 - 21:00

Wine Collectors, Rīga

🥂 Bubble Parade Festival Opening Evening

Join us at Wine Collectors for an opening night of noble Champagne magnums, music curated by Pink Noise Riga, and gourmet snacks available for a symbolic fee.


🍾 Why magnums?

In magnums, quite simply, everything tastes better — especially Champagne.
Proven and tested on our own tongues and with our own money!

And although the magnum (1.5 L) is only the first step in the hierarchy of large formats (yes, there are jeroboams, salmanazars, balthazars, nebuchadnezzars, and many more), on the festival opening night…
let everything flow in magnums.


🥂 How will it all work?

Walk-around tasting

  • Pick up your glass at the entrance
  • Stroll around the giant table by Andris Eglītis, inside Wine Collectors
  • Ask to be poured whatever your heart desires

Snacks

  • Served on-site in the new Wine Collectors lounge
  • Available for an additional fee

Availability

  • From each Champagne there will be exactly one magnum
  • Clearly, it won’t be enough for everyone — but no one will leave thirsty…

Sommeliers & storytellers

Peter Liem, Aigars Nords, Raimonds Tomsons, Agnese Gintere, plus winemakers who will already have made it to Riga.

P.S. You’ll absolutely be able to spit the Champagne if you want to taste the maximum number of magnums — but, well… your call. 😉


🍾 Which magnums will we be enjoying?

Non-Vintage (NV) Champagne

Montagne de Reims & Blends
  • 🍾 Mailly Grand Cru Brut Réserve — Super Alko Latvia
  • 🍾 Mobillion Brut Sélection Blanc de Noirs Premier Cru — getbubbly.shop (new distributor in the Latvian market)
  • 🍾 Mobillion Brut Rosé d’Assemblage Premier Cru — getbubbly.shop
  • 🍾 Nicolas Feuillatte Grande Réserve — Balmerk Latvia
  • 🍾 Piper-Heidsieck Cuvée Brut Magnum Night — MV Group Latvia
  • 🍾 Charles Heidsieck Resérve Brut — MV Group Latvia
  • 🍾 René Prévot Brut Réserve — Vīna bārs Garage
  • 🍾 Deutz Brut Classic — Liviko
  • 🍾 Gosset Grande Réserve Brut — Balmerk Latvia
  • 🍾 Moët & Chandon Impérial Rosé Brut — Prikeshop.lv
Côte des Blancs & Blanc de Blancs
  • 🍾 Agrapart & Fils Terroirs Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs Extra Brut (disg. 12/24)Baltic XL, Riga Wine & Champagne
  • 🍾 Bonnaire Terroirs Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs — VIETA
  • 🍾 De Venoge Princes Blanc de Blancs Brut — SMØR
  • 🍾 Etienne Calsac L’Échappée Belle Extra Brut Blanc de Blancs — Truff le Pig
  • 🍾 Guy Charlemagne Réserve Brut Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru — Liviko
  • 🍾 Leclaire-Thiéfaine “Cuvée 00 - Terre Blanche” Blanc de Blancs — Kabinett
Côte des Bar
  • 🍾 Roses de Jeanne Cédric Bouchard UR/R21 (disg. 2025)Wine Collectors, Riga Wine & Champagne

Vintage Champagne

  • 🍾 2020 Mobillion Brut Prestige Millésimé — getbubbly.shop
  • 🍾 2018 Vazart-Coquart Chouilly Grand Cru Spécial Club — Wine Collectors
  • 🍾 2014 Marc Hébrart Clos Le Léon Blanc de Blancs — Baltic XL, Riga Wine & Champagne
  • 🍾 2014 Paul Bara Millésimé — Baltic XL, Riga Wine & Champagne
  • 🍾 2013 Louis Roederer Rosé — Riga Wine & Champagne
  • 🍾 2005 Diebolt-Vallois Fleur de Passion — Riga Wine & Champagne

A Rare Bird

  • 🍾 A historical blend of Ruinart Brut NV (1980–1990s)Riga Wine & Champagne

📖 What does Aigars Nords write about magnums in “Vīns un Nords”?

“Somewhere you’ve surely heard the line that ‘a magnum is a tortoise, while a regular bottle is a rabbit.’
As strange as it sounds, the idea is simple — drinks bottled in large formats tend to mature much more slowly and predictably.
Oxygen — responsible for oxidation and the wine’s ageing process — sneaks in through the cork and neck. The amount of oxygen entering is practically the same for small and large bottles, while the wine volume is greater in large formats.
For this reason, wine in a magnum theoretically ages twice as slowly as in a standard 750 ml bottle.
…And for this very same reason, magnums are so highly sought after among collectors.”


"Size Matters!" is a part of Bubble Parade

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