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A wine city should be easy to explore.

One of the things we have come to love most about DC is its food and bar scene. Our team grew up around the hospitality industry, and that upbringing gave us a real passion for wine, food, and the people who put them in front of you.

Washington has an unusually good wine scene and an unusually hard time showing it to people. The bars are small, they are scattered across neighbourhoods that do not connect, and the ones worth sitting in are rarely the ones with the loudest sign. Most people end up going to the same two places for years.

We think our generation could use more of this: getting outside, together, across the best rooms in the city. That is the purpose behind the passport. Bring good people together, make a few memories worth keeping, and pour some very good wine along the way.

Friends raising glasses around a table.
Everyone came
Two people toasting over dinner.
The end of the bar
A glass being poured.
The pour
A row of people at a tasting.
Bar number four
A toast seen from below.
Cheers
Glasses of rosé meeting in the middle.
Rosé, September

Fun facts

A few things we learned about this city, and about wine.

  • Five pours

    is about what it takes to work out what you actually like. Most people never get there. They are handed one indifferent glass early on, decide wine is not for them, and never give it a second run.

    Our own view, and the reason this exists

  • 1,500 asked

    Wine drinkers told the Wine Market Council that it is the formality that keeps them away, not the wine. The ritual, the vocabulary, the worry about ordering wrong in front of someone.

    Wine Market Council

  • First in the country

    Washington drinks more wine per head than any state in America. The appetite is already here. What is missing is an easy way through the door.

    Voronoi

  • 48.6%

    of DC households are one person living alone, the highest rate of any city in America.

    Chamber of Commerce, US Census ACS

  • 69.3%

    of DC residents aged 20 and over are single.

    US Census

  • 31%

    Millennials are now the largest wine-drinking group, past boomers at 26%. Gen Z went from 9% to 14% in a year, which is the fastest any group has moved.

    Wine Market Council, 2025

  • 2,661

    restaurants in Washington, and 92 of them closed in 2025, up from 73 the year before. The rooms worth sitting in need people to walk in.

    Destination DC, RAMW

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