Cardiff Wine Passport returns next month

The Cardiff Wine Passport is returning this August, giving people seven weeks to discover some of the city centre’s best independent hospitality venues.

The initiaitve will run from Thursday 6 August until Sunday 27 September, with passports redeemable at participating venues from Sunday to Thursday only.

Each passport entitles its holder to six drinks, selected from a choice of 13 independent city centre venues, including Parallel, Bar 44, Asador 44, Bacareto, Lab 22, Nighthawks, Daffodil, The Dead Canary, Curado and Vermut. Brand new for this year are three new venues Sicilian café-bar Khione, wine bar Kindred and cocktail bar LowKey.

Passport holders can choose which six venues they visit and the order in which they visit them. At each venue they have a choice to redeem a stamp for one of two specially selected glasses of wine.

"Cardiff has an incredible independent hospitality scene, but simply having brilliant bars and restaurants does not automatically protect them from rising costs or changes in how people are spending; they need people through the door," says Jane Cook, founder of the Cardiff Wine Passport. "The passport is designed to make choosing independent feel exciting, rather than worthy. It’s six handpicked drinks, an excuse to try somewhere or something new and the makings of a midweek wine crawl around the city centre."

Since its launch in 2022, the passport has generated more than £80,000 in revenue for exclusively independent Cardiff bars and restaurants. 

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