Assistant Winemaker
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Full Time
Itasca Wines
Crondall, Hampshire,
England
Itasca Wines is looking for a full time Assistant Winemaker to join its team. With a brand new 600T state of the art winery, fully equipped lab and high speed disgorging line we have a world class facility in a beautiful location. This senior role will involve working directly with the Head Winemaker and external clients to deliver outstanding results in a rapidly growing company.
The role
- Day to day management, supervision and training of the cellar team
- Responsibility for managing secondary production at the Penn Croft Winery including Disgorging, Bottling, Labelling, Packaging and Warehousing
- Assist the Head Winemaker in the production of both own label and contract client wines
- Impliment and maintain SOPs and a high standard of work is all operations
- Maintenance and repair of winery equipment
- Managing cellar operations including MLF starter cultures, tirage cultures, fruit receival/processing, ferments, blending stabilisation and filtration
About you
- Passion for making high quality wine
- Excellent attention to detail and strong communication skills
- Team player with the drive to take on tasks and hit the ground running
- Experience and a proven track record in the following areas;
- Minimum 3 years full cycle winery operations
- Managing secondary production in a medium to large winery including disgorging and bottling
- Running a Cross Flow filter
- Manging a harvest team, scheduling work flow and meeting production deadlines
- Sensory analysis and blending skills
- Using Vin Trace software
- Counter balance forklift license
- Tertiary qualification in Oenology or equivalent experience
- Ability to lift up to 25Kg
- Legal right to work in the UK
About Us
Itasca wines has a brand new winemaking facility on the Hampshire/Surrey border making wines under the Penn Croft brand and offering contract winemaking, lab and disgorging services. On our own site we practice Conservation Agriculture, one of only a handful of vineyards in Europe to work to these principles. We also believe we have built one of the most sustainable wineries in the world, with solar power and a full waste water wetlands all on site. You will be involved in the production of a range of quality focused wines including still and sparkling from vineyards stretching from Essex to Cornwall.
We pride ourselves on working together as a team with the successfull candidate joining a crew that includes the winemaker, lab manager and senior cellar hand.
Closing date for applications 16th August. Please apply via the link below.