Job Status: Filled

Cellar Hand/Assistant Winemaker (Wine Jobs: Vineyards & Cellars )

Contract

  Leaning Post Wines (http://leaningpostwines.com)

  Winona, Ontario

Leaning Post Wines is a small-batch, premium winery that is growing! We are looking for a motivated team-player that is interested in being involved in all aspects of winemaking and operations, from winery to vineyard and retail store.

Qualifications include:

-Degree/Diploma in Oenology and Viticulture

-Experience in cellar operations/Experience in winery from crush to bottling

-Prior lab experience

-Familiarity with VQA regulations and submissions

-Forklift certification

-Ability to drive a tractor

-Strong computer skills and literate in Microsoft Office

-Smart Serve Certification a plus

-attention to detail

-ability to handle physical work and willing to work long hours when needed

-organized

-be self-motivated but also able to work well in a team

-excellent communication skills

-ability to lift 50 pounds

-friendly and professional manner with retail store customers

 

Roles and Responsibilities

-This position will be more vineyard and retail store focused during the summer, and will transition to more cellar/winemaking heading towards harvest, however expect to be involved in all of these as needed.

-Organizing and shipping orders

-Informing and educating our retail store customers

-Executing winemaking associated task such as barrel work, racking, fermentation, berry and juice sampling, filtration, sanitation, transfers, preparing wines for bottling

-Record keeping for winemaking, bottling, audits etc.

-Laboratory analysis (pH, TA, SO2,  etc.)

-Preparation of VQA Submissions

-Sampling and organizing tastings

-Assisting in Vineyard duties 

This is a full-time, hourly, contract position that will start immediately (once a candidate is chosen) and run through December, 2015. It could turn into a permanent position for the right candidate.

Compensation is dependent on experience

Please submit resumes (in confidence) by email to   [email protected]


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