The Cardiff Wine Passport is back for a new 2025 edition, inviting wine lovers to sip on a selection of handpicked wines – and even some wine cocktails – created exclusively for holders of the passport.
The Cardiff Wine Passport allows wine explorers to purchase a physical ‘passport’ which can be used to claim six handpicked glasses of wine at six venues of their choice, over six weeks – earning stamps for their passports as they go.
The first 2025 edition of the Cardiff Wine Passport will cost £30, and there are a total of 10 city centre venues to choose from. As with previous editions, the passport also offers a choice of two ‘pairings’ at each venue – for an extra cost, passport holders can add a suggested small plate which has been chosen to match their glass of wine or cocktail.
The Cardiff Wine Passport has a limited run of 800 passports and goes on sale on Friday 14th March. It will be valid from the 16th March for six weeks from Sunday to Thursday, with the following independent venues taking part:
- Terra Mare: Terra Mare are offering up two Venetian wines, paired with the mushroom arancini or their bruschetta with anchovies, Stracciatella and basil.
- Bar 44: Bar 44 will be offering a Cava or a glass of rosé as part of the passport, with the option to pair them with a couple of their classic and seasonal small plates.
- Vermut: This hole-in-the-wall bar specialises in the sale of Sherry, Vermouth, and wines from Montilla-Moriles; they have included two delicious Vermouths as past of the passport.
- Asador 44: This restaurant serves ingredients cooked over an authentic Spanish grill; here you can opt to pair a glass of cava with a prawn bisque croqueta with charcoal mayonnaise, or a glass of Tempranillo with their beef tartare.
- Curado Bar: A deli and pintxos bar in Westgate street; the passport offers a choice of two Spanish wines, with suggested pairings of classic Spanish croquetas, or Valencian salted almonds.
- Nighthawks: This wine bar is offering grilled cheese sandwiches as the pairing to a glass of crisp Romanian white wine, or a Bulgarian red.
- Lab 22: a Portuguese white and an Australian red are on offer.
- The Dead Canary: This will offer two wine-based cocktails..
- Bacareto: Bacareto have chosen to highlight an Italian Pinot Grigio with their salt cod crostino, and an Italian Barbera with their seasonal mini pizzettes.
- Daffodil: Here you can pair an Italian white with a trio of Welsh rarebit croquettes, or a dry Garnacha rosé with their pork belly bites.
The Cardiff Wine Passport was created by Cardiff born wine-lover and independent PR consultant Jane Cook, as a way to showcase some of the city’s best independent bars & restaurants – places that she says can sometimes be overlooked in favour of big-name chains. Since the first pilot in 2022, the Cardiff Wine Passport has injected more than £50,000 of revenue into Cardiff’s independent hospitality businesses, said Jane.
The 2025 edition is sponsored by Cardiff Wine Festival.
