Assistant Winemaker

**Date**:10 Apr 2024

**Location**: Somerset West, South Africa

**Company**:Accolade Wines

**About us**:
At Accolade Wines, our purpose is to enrich everyday moments. As one of the world’s leading wine companies, our award-winning portfolio includes beloved brands such as Flagstone, Hardys, Grant Burge, St Hallett, Mud House, Jam Shed and many more. We are one of the largest wine producers in the world - we’ve been around since 1836, and our portfolio has won nearly 9,000 international wine show awards in the last decade.

**About the role**:
The driving force behind our business is our people - we have over 1,100 dedicated employees across South Africa, Australia, the UK, Europe, Asia, New Zealand and the Americas, and every one of us is passionate about making the ordinary extraordinary through our amazing wines.

We have a new opportunity for an **Assistant Winemaker** to join our **Winemaking Team** at our **Flagstone Winery **in **Somerset West.**

This is a **full-time, permanent** role.

**Key responsibilities include**:
Reporting to the Head Winemaker & Production Manager, this position will coordinate and review all cellar operations (sanitation, safety, fermentation, aging, blending, barrel maintenance, bottling, etc.) with acute attention to detail for luxury wines. This position is responsible for maintaining wine quality, day to day operations of the cellar and barrel rooms, and workorder records for all wine movements and treatments.

Key responsibilities include:
- Coordinating all cellar activities with Head Winemaker.
- Managing the cellar team and ensuring protocols are executed to a high standard.
- Always maintaining superior wine quality.
- Management and participation in cellar workflow from harvest to bottling.
- Preparing wines for bottling with QA/QC guidelines
- Assists in developing cellar SOP’s and training cellar staff.

**What you'll bring**:

- Strong and relevant experience gained working in the wine industry.
- Appropriate wine-making qualifications (diploma or degree level).
- Strong computer skills, preferably with prior experience working with Wine.MS and JD Edwards.
- Food safety training is beneficial.
- Health and Safety Training beneficial.

**What you can expect**:

- Competitive annual salary.
- Loyalty Leave
- Accolade Wines Anniversary Day off
- Go Beyond Day - making a different in your local community
- Access to an extensive online learning library