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Cellar
Napa, CA 94559
Job Description
Cellar workers perform various work assignments to include: racking, pumping, clarifying and blending of juice and wine; Operate and care for filters, pumps, presses, hoses and other cellar equipment; handle shipping and receiving of tanker trucks; perform sanitation in cellar including tanks; check temperature of tanks during fermentation, stabilization and storage.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following.
• With little direct supervision complete work assignment and work orders received from Assistant Winemaker and Production Supervisor.
• Perform necessary volume calculations for wine blending and wine movements.
• Prepare wine batches for bottling.
• Transfer, rack, filter, and blend wines as needed.
• Mix tanks as needed on cold stability.
• Gas head space on partial tanks on a weekly basis.
• Make chemical and yeast additions to wine and juice as needed.
• Responsible for sanitation of cellar area equipment and tanks.
• Sample tanks as needed.
• Help Production Assistant with bulk wine inventory.
• Keep inventory of cellar supplies. Request orders as needed.
• Monitor temperature of wine tanks.
• Other duties may be assigned.
These assignments tend to be available during Harvest time