Patricia Green Cellars
April through October, 2026 Bottling, General Work and Harvest Jobs

Patricia Green Cellars was founded in 2000 and is now one of the leading producers of Pinot Noir in the country. We make a fairly large amount of small quantities of wines from a selection of the best vineyards in the Willamette Valley. This is a unique operation in many ways. A large Estate Vineyard in Ribbon Ridge provides the setting but fruit from upwards of 15 more vineyards rolls through during harvest. In addition to Pinot Noir small amounts of Sauvignon Blanc, Tempranillo and Chardonnay are produced as well. We also happen to be the best producer of whiskey in the state of Oregon.

Summer Winery Work & Harvest Staffer

From April through August racking, barrel maintenance, cleaning, organizing, bottling both wine and whiskey. Expected harvest September into/through October. The spring and summer hours will be somewhat inconsistent with some weeks being 40+ hours and some being a full day or less. Mostly there is work to be had, especially for the right candidate.

Qualifications Necessary

•  Experience working in the production facility of a winery. A minimum of a full-harvest or the equivalent thereof. More is probably better.
•  Experience working on a high-speed bottling line.
•  Forklift driving and electric pallet jack operation experience.
•  High-degree of physical capability to perform all jobs necessary.
•  Ability to take direction and stay on task.

What Patricia Green Cellars offers in the whole deal

•  This is a progressive and team-oriented operation.
•  Complete and extensive training, particularly in regard to safety measures.
•  The work environment is pretty low stress even if there will be days and stretches of days that are pretty intense.
•  During harvest we will hopefully end up processing around 250-300 tons of fruit, most of it will be Pinot Noir from some of the best, oldest and most historic vineyards in Oregon You will work with an extremely experienced core group that will provide training, direction, motivation and hopefully inspiration.
•  The pay is at a minimum $25/hour depending upon experience, there is time and a half pay after 40 hours. Ther will be times when the job is 7 days/week of 8-12 hour days.
•  We don’t pull over-night shifts. We don’t work past 12 hours/day other than in crisis management situations which we hope to avoid.
•  Breakfast, lunch, snacks and beverages are provided daily. Dinner is provided when necessary. There is a hot tub.
•  We are out in the middle of nowhere and it’s really beautiful.

What we don’t provide:

•  We don’t have guest quarters or a winery house and transportation is not exactly something we can provide but it is necessary as the winery is 6-7 miles from the nearest town that would have housing. We will work with folks from afar on these issues and attempt to solve that problem before it becomes one.
•  This isn’t a big “on the job training for your new career in the wine industry” sort of place although we have had people move from here to other wineries so it is certainly not unprecedented.

What we expect of you

•  You can physically and mentally handle the amount and intensity of work. During harvest this is 50-70 hours/week on your feet doing work that ranges from monotonous to strenuous, during bottling it is 8-10 hours/day of repetitive motion and lifting.
•  You take direction, are enthusiastic, team-oriented and care about the quality of your work.
•  Cleaning is an essential part of everyone's daily activities and taking initiative on it and being thorough about it is required.

Bottling work will begin immediately in April and we will have a lot of wine tasting, barrel cleaning, tank prep, moving stuff around sorts of day and weeks basically all summer long. While it is basically impossible to predict when harvest will exactly begin at this point, we are expecting, based on current trajectory, for harvest to begin sometime in the first 10-20 days of September but that is a wait and see sort of situation at this juncture.

Check out the website, patriciagreencellars.com for more general sorts of information.