Cellar Hand Harvest 2026

Chaberton Estate Winery is the largest estate winery in the Fraser Valley and one of the oldest in B.C. Located on 55 acres in The Township of Langley (45 minutes from Vancouver), Chaberton produces award winning wines from grapes from its own property as well as grapes from selected Okanagan and Similkameen Valley Vineyards to facilitate an annual production of over 45,000 cases.

The Candidate

Chaberton Winery seeks 2 motivated Vintage Cellar Hands to join our Chaberton team for 2026 Vintage. The ideal candidate will have a positive attitude, nice sense of humor, hardworking and have strong desire to make good wine. Full-time permanent position will be offered post-harvest to the right candidate. 

Key Responsibilities:

·        Receiving, processing and pressing grapes (operating must pump, crusher de-stemmer, 8 and 20 ton press)

·        Transferring and racking tanks

·        Fermentation management: Inoculations, nutrient additions, sampling, pump overs, punch downs, sugar monitoring, and digging out of fermenters

·        Cellar sanitation: Tank & barrel cleaning, general cleaning of facility and winery equipment

·        Conducting basic lab analysis  (TA, pH, VA, SO2, Brix)

·        Operating a forklift (stacking barrels, dumping grapes into the hoper)

·        Carrying out barrel operations (filling, topping, racking)