Grand Champagne Helsinki celebrates 10 years! The meeting place for champagne lovers 24.4.-26.4.2025

Grand Champagne Helsinki celebrates 10 years! 

The meeting place for champagne lovers 24.4.-26.4.2025

We are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Grand Champagne Helsinki event! The event has established itself as the highlight of spring, the weekend when the world’s champagne center moves to Helsinki. 

In addition to domestic top names, the secrets of champagne will be revealed to us by our star guests, the highly regarded cellar masters Emilien Boutillat (Rare Champagne and Piper-Heidsieck), Denis Bunner (Bollinger), Benoît Gouez (Moët & Chandon), Caroline Latrive (Deutz) and Elise Losfelt (Charles Heidsieck), and Lucie Pereyre de Nonancourt from the owner family of Laurent-Perrier. 

At Grand Champagne you will meet many, many other champagne stars! The master class will feature Guillaume Bonvalet (CEO, Bonvalet), Irvin Charpentier (Cellar Master, Domaine Alexandre Bonnet), Sophie Cossy (Winegrower, Cossy), Camille Delard (Communicative Winemaker, Nicolas Feuillatte), Etienne Eteneau (Cellar Master, Abelé 1757), Cynthia Fossier (Cellar Master, Canard-Duchêne), Benjamin Fourmon (CEO, Joseph Perrier), Christelle Gratiot (Winegrower, Gratiot-Pillière), Laurent d’Harcourt (Chairman of the Board, Pol Roger), Pierre Huré (Winegrower, Huré Frères), Thomas Lombard (CEO, Lombard), Nicolas Maillart (Winegrower, Nicolas Maillart), Michel Parisot (Winemaker, Devaux), François Philipponnat (Export Manager, Philipponnat), Clément Pierlot  (Cellar Master, Pommery), Alexandre Ponnavoy (Cellar Master, Taittinger), Nicolas Rainon (Winegrower, Henriet-Bazin), Stéphane Regnault (Winegrower, Stéphane Regnault), Raymond Ringeval (Commercial Director, Palmer & Co), Kevin Sibille (Export Manager, Laurent Lequart), Nicolas Signolle (Winegrower, Michel Gonet), Alice Tétienne (Cellar Master, Henriot), Odilon de Varine (Vice President, Gosset). 

Our domestic experts include Master of Wine Essi Avellan as well as wine experts Samuil Angelov and Jukka Sinivirta.

CHAMPAGNES AND MASTER CLASSES
There are 48 Master Classes available by our experts especially tailored for Grand Champagne Helsinki. Lehmann’s beautiful Grand Champagne Ultra Light 40cl glasses are used for all the Master Classes. The Old Student House provides a classy yet relaxed atmosphere for tasting the over 300 champagnes on offer from some 75 brands. In the upstairs Champagne Balcony, a group of interesting producers who have not yet landed in Finland will be presenting themselves with the help of Business France. To celebrate the anniversary, downstairs we will be using the Lehmann Grand Champagne 25cl glass, which is included in the price of the event ticket. In addition to champagnes, the event will offer delicacies suitable for champagne from restaurants Pastis, Muru and Lapland Hotels’ Kultà Kitchen.

GRAND CHAMPAGNE DINNER

This spring, the Grand Champagne Dinner is executed by chef Pekka Terävä, Creative Leader & partner, from Olo Collection, a group of unique restaurants that has grown around the Michelin-starred restaurant Olo. Pekka Terävä and his team will design dishes specifically for the champagnes of our star guests. 

LEHMANN GRAND CHAMPAGNE CHALLENGE 

The event will also feature the eighth Lehmann Grand Champagne Challenge, a competition for champagne knowledge and serving skills, organized together with the sommelier association of Finland (Suomen Sommelierit ry). The 2025 Champion will be announced on Friday, April 25th, immediately after the final. 

EVENT 

The entrance ticket price at the door is €27, which includes a Lehmann Glass Grand Champagne 25cl champagne glass. Group tickets (4, 6 and 8 people) are available. 

Learn more about the Grand Champagne Helsinki event at: www.grandchampagnehelsinki.fi, and buy tickets for the event at Ceesta’s event ticket shop: www.ceestashop.fi 

More information about the event will be provided throughout the spring on social media:

Instagram @grandchampagnehelsinki
Facebook @grandchampagnehelsinki
LinkedIn: Grand Champagne Helsinki

WELCOME 

Thursday, April 24, 2025, 4-9 p.m. 

Friday, April 25, 2025, 3-9 p.m. 

Saturday, April 26, 2025, 12-8 p.m.

WHERE
Old Student House – ”Vanha Ylioppilastalo” Mannerheimintie 3, 00100 Helsinki, Finland

ENTRY FEE
A one-day’s festival entry ticket costs 27 €. The entire program of the event is available at www.grandchampagnehelsinki.fi