Winemaking Technician

Cave Spring Vineyard seeks a skilled and innovative Winemaking Technician to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have experience with laboratory and fermentation protocols particularly with Indigenous yeast fermentations.  They also need to have a strong knowledge of cellar operations and vineyard protocols and how they affect the wines.

Duties & Responsibilities

Under the instruction of the Head Winemaker, the Winemaking Technician will be responsible for:

• Laboratory analysis during all stages of production. This will include but is not limited to Brix, pH, Titratable Acidity, alcohol, sulphur analysis, paper chromatography, spectroscopy, residual sugars and turbidity.
• Responsible for monitoring, tracking and making additions to fermenting wines to ensure proper yeast growth and desired organoleptic properties
• Understand how to manage wild fermentations using minimalist and low intervention winemaking methods.
• Responsible for monitoring, tracking and making additions to wines undergoing Malo-lactic fermentations to ensure proper growth and desired organoleptic properties.
• Responsible for analyzing wines for both cold and heat stability and calculating additions to correct.
• Responsible for lab analysis and organoleptic analysis of wines throughout the production process to ensure quality and be able to identify problems and enact solutions.
• Monitoring of wines throughout the year to ensure they remain chemically and biologically stable.
• Facilitate ongoing and new research projects and grant proposals.
• Understand the challenges of using Indigenous yeasts and know how to overcome these challenges.

Working Environment

This is a full-time position based at our winery in Jordan, ON. We offer a collaborative and inclusive work environment with opportunities for growth and advancement.