The Cadre
A small alliance ofwine specialists.
A cadre is a tight, trusted circle. Ours brings together a sommelier, the chefs and makers he works alongside, and the wineries who open their cellars to us — assembled around your occasion.
Why a cadre
The best evenings are never the work of one pair of hands. They're a sommelier's eye, a chef's timing, a winemaker's generosity — quietly coordinated, so all you notice is how easy it felt.
VinoCadre is that coordination. One promise — wine worth gathering around — expressed through many hands, and led by someone who has spent a career learning whom to trust.
Who leads it
Andre BoadaAdvanced Sommelier
Andre was raised in Napa Valley by European parents, where wine was less something you drank than something you paid attention to. That early habit — appreciation over consumption — became a career.
He earned his Advanced Sommelier certification through the Court of Master Sommeliers and now tastes on the order of a hundred wines a week in pursuit of the Master Sommelier Diploma — a title held by only a few hundred people in the world. Along the way he became an international wine judge, a speaker for Food & Wine, and a writer on the subject.
He founded VinoCadre in St. Helena, California in 2015, and brought it home to Fredericksburg in 2020 — drawn by a Texas Hill Country wine scene coming into its own. The depth is his. The ease is yours to borrow.
“It was less about drinking wine, and more about appreciating it.”
The credentials, briefly
- ✦Advanced Sommelier — Court of Master Sommeliers
- ✦Candidate for the Master Sommelier Diploma
- ✦International wine judge
- ✦Speaker for Food & Wine
- ✦Freelance wine writer
The door is open.The room is curated.
No velvet rope, no wrong questions — and, at the same time, nothing templated and nothing left to chance. We hold both at once, in every evening we design.
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