We, at Peake Ranch believe in making the best wines from Sta. Rita Hills in Santa Barbara county. We focus on Pinot noir, Chardonnay, Syrah, and Grenache. Detail-oriented, science-driven, and paying homage to the traditional Central coast winemaking style, Peake Ranch is exploring new ways to express the fruits to its highest quality.
Located on Santa Rosa Road between Buellton and Lompoc, we are close to notable restaurants like Industrial Eats, Coastal Range, or SY Kitchen. Drive a little bit further and you can arrive at Bell’s in Los Alamos too.
We work with three vineyards, Peake Ranch Estate, John Sebastiano Vineyard, and Sierra Madre Vineyard (not in Sta. Rita Hills but in Santa Barbara county AVA).

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Position: 2025 Harvest Intern (Aug-Nov)

Pay: Depending on experience

Job Description:
•  Cleaning and Sanitation: crush equipment, press, tanks, hoses, etc.
•  Fruit processing and fermentation management: sorting table, punchdown/pumpover, sample retrieval for lab analysis, yeast/acid/nutrient addition, dig out tanks, etc.
•  Wine quality maintenance: topping, sulfur addition, barrel maintenance, etc.
•  Wine movement: racking, transfer, blending
•  Forklift operations
•  Follow safety rules, regulations, and SOPs

General Schedule:
- It will start out at 6-8 hours/day with 3-5 days/week but as harvest picks up, it is common to
work 8-10hours/day with 5-6days/week. As harvest winds down, be expected to work similar
hours as it started out with. Overtime pay provided.
- Generally expect to start at 7am
- Morning duties include cap management (pumpovers/punchdowns), Brix/temp recording,
sanitation of equipment to receive fruit, fruit processing or crushing. The idea is to get most of
the fruit processing done in the AM in order to tackle the fermentation needs of other
juice/wine already in the winery.
- Afternoon/evening duties include sanitation of equipment that was used to process fruit,
afternoon cap management, fermentation additions/adjustments, and other miscellaneous
work.

Requirements:
•  Lift up to 50lbs
•  Valid driver’s license
•  Must be available to work weekends and overtime
•  Preferred: Previous harvest experience and/or winemaking degree
•  Preferred: Forklift experience
•  Preferred: Fluent in English

Thank you for reading this. Please send a resume if interested in learning and working with us.