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