2025 Cellar Hand + Harvest Team Member
Job Type: Seasonal

Winery: A family owned and operated estate winery that farms using organic practices and is working towards organic certification. We are seeking a motivated person to join our team for the rest of the 2025 season. Our team is small and the cellar hand will have the opportunity to be involved in all aspects of cellar work and also get to spend some time in the vineyard. Those looking for hands-on experience in a wide variety of cellar tasks will find our role very rewarding.

Work you will be asked to do but not limited to:

- Bottling
- Cellar work (barrel cleaning, topping wine, blending wine, sanitizing equipment)
- Maintaining a clean and well organized cellar
- Record Keeping
- Fruit processing
- Fermentation monitoring - sampling, lab work
- Fermentation management (pump overs and punch downs)
- Vineyard sampling
- Vineyard data collection

Candidate requirements:
- Strong work ethic and positive attitude
- Ability to work long and variable hours on flexible days during harvest; expect 6 day workweeks
- Ability to lift 50 plus pounds, go up and down ladders, shovel tanks, grapes and other items
- Reliability
- Forklift experience is desired; but not required

During harvest, interns can be expected to work 6 days a week and ~12 hours a day if necessary. We are in a remote location, so a car will be necessary.

We hope to find candidates that are enthusiastic about organic viticulture and low intervention winemaking.

Seasoned harvest veterans and first-timers are both welcome, although we would love to have a teammate that has an interest and passion for expanding their knowledge and experience in the wine business. This position starts in July and ends in December. The winery is about 35 minutes North of Traverse City.