Vineyard Manager (Wine Jobs: Vineyards & Cellars )

  Adamo Estate Winery (http://www.adamoestate.com)

  orangeville, Ontario

Vineyard work:

-          Working knowledge and experience with pruning, tying, canopy management (shoot thinning, suckering, green harvest, hedging), IPM, scouting, spray programs, fertilizing, weeding and harvesting, geo-textile blanket applications and removal, implementing bird netting, setting up bird control mechanisms, replanting of vines, monitoring and sampling grapes.

-          Tractor driving; un-burying, cultivating, fertilizer spreading, spraying, mowing, hedging, weeding with radius hoe, and burying/blanketing vines for the winter. Also, pulling a trailer, using a front end loader or bucket and snow removal with a snow blower.

-          Record keeping

-          Large rock removal

-          Trellis maintenance and replacement when need be

-          Weed whacking and hand weeding

-          Operating frost machines

-          Equipment maintenance and service scheduling

-          Experience with Organic methods of viticulture is welcome but not mandatory

-          Valid pesticide safety training license for Ontario farmers

 

Other jobs may include but are not limited to;

Winery work:

-          Tank/barrel and equipment cleaning and sanitizing, racking, transfers, additions, barreling up and down, blending, fining, filtering, bottling and record keeping.

-          Competence to run a crush pad; forklifting, receiving grapes (weighing in), pressing, crushing and destemming, cleaning, sanitizing and maintaining equipment (cleaning, oiling, greasing, etc).

-          Leading tastings and/or tours and pouring at wine events around Ontario.

-          Moving and lifting wine cases and stacking them.

 

Laboratory work:

-          Testing the following (using protocol and procedures outlined by the winemaker); pH, TA, brix, turbidity, alcohol, Free & Total Sulphur, residual sugar, malo-lactic fermentation through chromatography, protein stability, filterability and cold stability testing and interpreting tested data from wines.

-          Setting up tasting trials: acid, sugar, blending, among others.

-          Tasting with confidence and ability to describe a wine and recognize wine faults.

 

Other Abilities:

-          Strong communication skills and attention to detail.

-          Ability to manage a team and work well as part of the team or individually with efficient time management.

-          Cooperative attitude and be flexible to changes and work hours.

-          Willingness to expand knowledge base and practices and participate in vine and wine trials.

-          Being prepared to work in all types of weather and temperatures in Southern Ontario.

-          Able to do physical labour and lift 25 KG.

-          Driving to pick up items from suppliers.

-          Problem solving on the spot.

-          Removal of garbage to appropriate locations.

-          Hand shovelling, snow removal and salting.

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