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Winemaker - Six Eighty Cellars
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Robin's Vines
Ovid, NY (In Person)
Full-Time
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WINEMAKER - SIX EIGHTY CELLARS
Six Eighty Cellars is a family owned and operated winery on Cayuga Lake that crafts unique, earthenware-aged wines from Certified Sustainable grapes in the Finger Lakes of New York. With minimal intervention and unconventional techniques, we invite you to taste the unexpected. In this role, responsibilities/requirements include:- Oversee all wine making staff; day-to-day cellar work including, but not limited to: Crush activities (sorting, pressing, crushing), Cellar work (racking, blending, filtrations, stabilization when needed)
- Coordinate with other departments and schedule work accordingly (events, wholesale needs, marketing needs, etc.)
- Oversee upkeep of Six Eighty Cellars (SEC) tasting room, cellar, and warehouse inventory and organization.
- Partner with Ops manager in regard to inventory, packaging materials, etc.
- Be sure crush operations are scheduled and running smoothly
- Oversee and manage custom crush winemaking
- Order all dry goods for crush and wine production. Partner with Buttonwood Grove Winery as needed.
- Continually develop and improve upon winemaking strategies for both wineries.
- Responsible for final sign off on wines before bottling
- Partner with Buttonwood Grove winemaker and team to streamline resources, consult on blending trials, etc.
- Conduct all blending, fining, sweetening, acid trials, etc.
- Perform, oversee and analyze lab work
- Manage and coordinate bottling days and bottling line
- Responsible for the overall care and maintenance of bottling line; including sourcing parts and scheduling maintenance or repair.
- Facilitate the training of those working bottling line in sterilization procedures.
- Represent the winery both virtually and in-person to the trade/media/marketing events in a professional manner
- Make certain that all winemaking operations are being carried out safely and efficiently while still maintaining and improving quality standards.
- Work with vineyard team in planning new plantings as well as management decisions when required
- Determine harvest time through lab results as well as flavor and condition of the grapes
- Coordinate harvest planning with any purchased fruit
- Establish best treatment of grapes based on the vintage
- Ensure Innovint is up-to-date
- Write work orders in Innovint for staff
- Point person with DNT for pickups and deliveries
- Point person with other vendors and supplies
- Conduct weekly production meetings
- Have a growth mindset
- Continually train and guide as needed
- Work with and provide tasting notes, label information and copy to necessary partners
- Be able and willing to lift 40 lbs
- fork lift certification preferred