Commanderie De Bordeaux

Name

Commanderie De Bordeaux

Legal name

Commanderie de Bordeaux aux États-Unis d'Amérique

Website

https://commanderieusa.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1957

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Wine Appreciation Society

NAICS

Tour Operators (56152)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Wine Tastings & Vineyard/Winery Tours (THAJAGAD)

Keywords

• Bordeaux wine society
• Wine brotherhood
• Wine tasting events
• Wine education programs
• Vineyard excursion tours

Headquarters

HQ city

Brentwood

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Marketing or Sales, Personnel, Others

Revenue model

1. Membership Dues and Initiation Fees: The organization generates revenue through membership fees. Most chapters have a membership ranging between 25 and 40 Commandeurs. Large cities such as New York and Chicago have memberships approaching or exceeding 100 members. Chapters establish wine cellars through annual wine assessments, cellar initiation fees from new members, and member donations.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Commanderie De Bordeaux is a non-profit wine appreciation brotherhood founded in 1957 that promotes and educates members about Bordeaux wines through tastings, seminars, master classes, and vineyard trips organized across roughly 40 chapters in the United States, Puerto Rico, and Mexico. It sustains its operations through annual membership dues, initiation fees, and a sponsorship-based onboarding tradition, while offering the Commandeur's Choice Initiative as a curated wine recommendation program for members.

Product overview

Commanderie De Bordeaux National is a wine enthusiast organization (not a technology company or SaaS product) that promotes and educates about Bordeaux wines. It operates through a network of 40 chapters across the United States, Puerto Rico, and Mexico. The organization's offerings include wine education events, blind tastings, seminars, video master classes, vineyard field trips, member networking events (called 'parlements'), and a YouTube channel with Bordeaux-related video content. It also runs the Commandeur's Choice Initiative (CCI) for recommending affordable Bordeaux wines to members.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Commanderie Membership

Named customers4 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Grand Conseil du Vin de Bordeaux (GCVB)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Commanderie de Bordeaux USA is affiliated with the Grand Conseil du Vin de Bordeaux (GCVB), the parent organization that coordinates all Commanderies worldwide. The GCVB is a non-profit organization established in 1975 with authority to represent all appellations of Bordeaux wine-producing regions. All Commanderie activities are organized under the GCVB's auspices. The current President of the GCVB is Francis Boutémy who also serves as the world Grand Maître of the Commanderie de Bordeaux at headquarters in Bordeaux itself.
• Petits Châteaux of BordeauxcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Commanderie supports small châteaux (Petits Châteaux) of Bordeaux that produce thousands of everyday wines from appellations such as Côtes de Blaye and Bourg, Entre Deux Mers, Fronsac Canon Fronsac, and the Haut Medoc. The organization conducts annual blind tastings at each chapter to identify representative wines and promotes these affordable Bordeaux wines through the Commandeur's Choice Initiative.
• Union de Maisons de BordeauxminorOthersExternal resource link provided on the More Information page. Links to learn more about the Commanderie and Bordeaux wines.
• Union des Grand Crus de BordeauxminorOthersExternal resource link provided on the More Information page. Links to learn more about the Commanderie and Bordeaux wines.
• Wine SearcherminorOthersExternal resource link provided on the More Information page. Wine price comparison and information service.
• Wine AccessminorOthersExternal resource link provided on the More Information page. Wine retailer and information resource.
• Decanter.comminorOthersExternal resource link provided on the More Information page. Wine publication and information resource.
• Cité du VinminorOthersExternal resource link provided on the More Information page. Wine museum and education center in Bordeaux.
• Robert Parker's Website (Wine Advocate)minorOthersExternal resource link provided on the More Information page. Wine ratings and reviews resource.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Wine Spectator: Flagship US wine publication and event organizer with consumer-facing education and tasting experiences. Broad incumbent that competes for time and dollars from the same affluent, Bordeaux-interested consumer demographic.
• Guild of Sommeliers: US-based wine professional society offering education, events, and a tasting community. Wider remit than Commanderie but competes for engagement from serious American wine enthusiasts, particularly those interested in structured Bordeaux learning.
• Court of Master Sommeliers: Premier wine education and certification body with global reach. Broader, more professionalized, and more commercially significant than the Commanderie, but serves overlapping audiences of committed wine enthusiasts and competes for mindshare in Bordeaux-specific education.
• Decanter: Major global wine media brand with tastings, events, and educational content. Reaches a broader, more casual audience than the Commanderie but offers overlapping wine-learning value that may substitute for some would-be members.

Emerging players

• Wine Folly: Digital-native wine education platform with a large, younger audience and content library. Not a membership society, but reaches Bordeaux-curious consumers online and represents the kind of digital competition the Commanderie faces for next-generation members.

Direct peers

• Confrérie des Vignerons de l'Anneau du Rhin: Alsace wine brotherhood operating a membership-based, chapter-style model for promoting Alsatian wines. Comparable as a French wine appreciation society with regional affinity ties and similar ceremonial/educational programming.
• La Confrérie des Chevaliers du Tastevin: Burgundy-based wine brotherhood and confraternity explicitly cited as inspiration for Commanderie de Bordeaux. Operates as a membership-based wine appreciation society with chapters, tastings, and ceremonial events, directly comparable in structure and mission.
• International Wine & Food Society: Long-running global gastronomy society with branches (chapters) hosting wine tastings, dinners, and educational events for paying members. Directly comparable membership-club structure and programming to Commanderie de Bordeaux.
• Commanderie du Bontemps: Médoc, Graves, Sauternes and Barsac wine brotherhood. Another Bordeaux-region wine confraternity with a sponsorship-based membership model, tastings, and ambassador-style inductions — structurally identical to Commanderie de Bordeaux.
• Jurade de Saint-Émilion: Saint-Émilion wine brotherhood also cited in the Commanderie's history as a model. A membership-based wine society focused on promoting and celebrating a specific Bordeaux appellation, with comparable chapter structure and ceremonial induction events.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCkaaWWcNsnYEkzkKMfqYoCA
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/commanderie-de-bordeaux-inc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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