Job Description
Job Description:
The Farm
Antiquum Farm represents a paradigmatic shift in intensive wine farming, sustainability, and the pursuit of true terroir.
For the past 19 years Antiquum Farm wines have been grown in an entirely self-sustaining system we have dubbed “Grazing Based Viticulture”. No fertilizers of any kind are used. Instead livestock (pigs, sheep, chickens, geese, and turkeys) graze the vineyards year round in an intensive rotational system. This system utilizes the gut fauna of livestock and cycles of root growth and die-off to isolate, evolve, and stimulate our soil microbiome.
The results have been truly extraordinary. Isolating and evolving the soils microbial populations has untethered our wines from historic, regional, and varietal expectations. The individualistic spirit of these wines bears the truth of the home we love and the ethics of the people who work here.
Winemaking at Antiquum Farm must embrace these principals. We seek to make wines of uncompromising truth and quality. We shun the idea of winemaking “style” as we believe that this idea creates a gravitational pull away from the naked truth of place and people
Sharing our work has created rapid growth and a dedicated following of consumers, restaurants, retailers, and distributors. Our priorities are humanity, family, and creating a more beautiful world. We share these values through our work and intimate personable experiences at the farm.
We are a small but mighty team. Stephen leads the farm, and acts as GM and national sales director. We have a full-time director of hospitality and DTC sales, two part-time tasting room sales staff, two full time vineyard team members, and one farm and hospitality support staff. From time to time we all pitch in to help each other in our respective arenas to get it all done.
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Production
Antiquum Farm produces approximately 3,000-4,000 9 liter cases between eight different wines annually.
Antiquum Farm wines are currently distributed in 15 domestic and 4 international markets.
Position Title: Winemaker
Reports to: Grower/GM/NSD, Stephen Hagen
Required Experience
2 years minimum in head winemaking position and/or several years experience in assistant/associate winemaker positon.
Position Description
The winemaker oversees all aspects of the wine production and is directly responsible for all day-to-day operations of the winemaking process.
Creatively contribute to the qualitative and conceptual growth of Antiquum Farm wines.
Set and implement direction for processing, bottling, packaging, and storage of all Antiquum Farm wines based on targets and goals.
Manages all production supply chain, and movement of wines between wine production facilities and storage.
Responsible for all COLA/TTB filings related to wine production and labeling as well as setting up new vintage items in storage systems.
Maintain accurate and current winemaking records in appropriate company Google drive..
Hiring and scheduling of all outside contractors (i.e. bottling, filtration, and packaging) for winemaking needs.
Collaborate with ownership/national sales to meet product mix goals across all SKUs.
Collaborate with vineyard team to set harvest schedule based upon fruit maturation and vineyard team and facility capabilities.
Monitor the condition of all wines in the effort to prevent spoilage and avoid or limit the impact of winemaking interventions.
Analyze cost and projections of costs of production, packaging, and storage. Report findings to and advise GM.
Build and maintain annual cost of goods reports for all SKUs in company Dropbox.
Build bottling cost projections for each vintage a minimum of 3 months prior to bottling runs. Store in appropriate company Google drive.
Leadership:
Directly responsible for assessing the need for, recruiting, hiring, training, and managing all cellar staff. Reports all hiring recommendations to GM for budget approval.
Collaborate with hospitality manager to provide wine education for hospitality staff and ownership.
National Sales:
Travel to some markets to assist distribution in sales, conduct events, and distributor portfolio events. GM/NSD handles the bulk of this work load.
National Sales travel will be scheduled to not interfere with winemaking duties and will be mutually agreed to be reasonable in scope as to respect home life and maintain work/life balance.
Assist in hosting distribution partners at the farm.
Assist in hosting writers, and critics at the farm.
DTC:
Winemaker collaborates with hospitality team and ownership to conceptualize and creatively contribute in building hospitality experiences.
Participate in direct to consumer open house and dinners at the farm as needed.
Winery Building:
Antiquum Farm currently rents winery space and is committed to a three year lease. We may choose to build a facility on the farm near the termination of this lease period.
Advise in design of Antiquum Farm’s winery with long term wine quality and case load potential of the farm in mind.
Analyze cost of needed equipment and build a list of for the facility. Supervise the set-up of winemaking equipment.
Compensation
Salary DOE
Two weeks paid vacation after 9 months.
Health care stipend for Health Savings Account.
All fees for software etc needed for work.
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Job Tags
Full time, Part time, For contractors, Work from home, Shift work,