Winery & Vineyard Staff:

By Arrangement

Viticulturist/Assistant Winemaker
Approx. 40 hours per week, some unpaid overtime required (6days over the high season)
Herzog Estate is a much acclaimed family boutique winery in the heart of New Zealand’s most prestigious wine region producing ultra premium wines from its 11.5ha organic single vineyard. We are very passionate about winegrowing and have planted over 26 different grape varieties - a great and exciting challenge for every viticulturist. We utilise organic vineyard practices including biodynamic philosophies for a low yielding crop of exceptionally concentrated fruit. The winery takes advantage of both high tech and traditional equipment with its own bottling and labelling facility to control the whole winemaking process. We are proud of our reputation of producing some of the world’s greatest wines.

QUALIFICATION
We are looking for a fully trained and experienced Viticulturist who has some winemaking practice. It would be an advantage to have already worked on a similar small high quality estate where you have learnt to be hands-on and able to help wherever needed. You should be a bit of a “Jack of all trades” with a “can do” attitude. A passion for fine wines is essential. Moderate English language abilities is required.

POSITION SUMMARY AND REQUIRED SKILLS
You need to have the necessary skills and feel confident to carry out all required viticulture work throughout the season unsupervised and have good physical strength and endurance. Tasks include bud rubbing, shoot thinning, leaf plucking, bunch thinning and netting to all tractor work including spraying, weeding, mulching and canopy management. Needless to say you have to be an excellent tractor driver, used to fork lift driving and handy in maintaining all machinery and equipment for vineyard and winery.

You will help organize the vintage and be hands-on with picking, collecting bins, handling the press and pump, plunging, pumping over, controlling fermentation, cleaning all harvest machinery, tanks and tools to the high hygiene standards maintained at our estate. Other Cellar work includes barrel handling, topping up, racking and some laboratory work.

You will be dispatching orders and should feel confident working with bottling and labelling machines. You will have to carry out all stock control and some minor administrative work for the winery.

The ideal candidate is open-minded, friendly and fun to work with good communication skills to conduct winery tours and tastings or help back-up the cellar door during busy times.

Email applications will be accepted from:

From Now
in the following format:
- Covering letter
- Full employment history summary
- Last 4 employer references
- Relevant industry certificates and qualifications
- Photograph

Incomplete applications will NOT be considered.

Email: info@herzog.co.nz
Attn: Samantha Young – Office Administrator/Marketing

Herzog Winery & Restaurant   |   81 Jeffries Rd, Blenheim 7273   |  +64 (0)3 572 8770   |   info@herzog.co.nz