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Winemaker
(Wine Jobs:
Vineyards & Cellars )
Full Time
Hampshire,
England
Vacancy for Full Time Winemaker
Exton Park Vineyard is a single-estate English Sparkling Wine producer located in the heart of the famous South Downs National Park, just outside Winchester. We are one of the pioneers of the new Non-Vintage philosophy, with the aim of producing sparkling wines that have a distinctive style and consistent quality; wines that express our unique terroir in every single bottle.
This is an exciting time for Exton Park; we have recently planted a further 2 hectares, bringing the vineyard to 60 acres, we have extended our on-site winery and are enlarging our promotional building.
Following this expansion we are now looking to recruit a full time winemaker, reporting directly to Corinne Seely, the Head Winemaker, with an ideal commencement date of 1st September 2019.
Job tasks and responsibilities to include:
- Grape maturity control before harvest
- Assist in supervising all day to day cellar operations, including harvest, bulk wine, barrels,
- 1st analyses
- Preparation for blending, tartaric stabilisation and filtration
- Bottling
- Disgorgments
- Assist in educational tastings and tours of the facility, when needed.
- Prepare work-orders, assist in data management
Person specification to include:
- Experience of 5 plus years in a winery is essential with at least 2 years as a qualified winemaker, (preferably in sparkling wines but not mandatory).
- Proficiency certificate for forklift operation
- English spoken essential
Salary according to skill level