Sourcing Winemaker - Ningxia (Wine Jobs: Vineyards & Cellars )

  Treasury Wine Estates

  Shanghai, Shanghai

About us

Treasury Wine Estates (TWE) is one of the world’s leading wine companies.  We know that it’s the thinkers, makers and doers who have the most impact as we continue to strive towards being recognised as the world’s most admired premium wine company.  We are proud of our portfolio of brands that have tremendous heritage, rich quality and a reputation for excellence across the globe.  From iconic brands such as Penfolds, to the broad appeal of Rawson’s Retreat and newer brands like 19 Crimes, we are committed to creating memorable wine experiences for our consumers.

About the role

Reporting to the Sourcing Winemaker – China, this role will manger partnerships with growers and wineries to ensure reliable, predictable, and sustainable delivery of wine to TWE specification.

Additionally, it will also support the development of long-term sourcing plans.

• Working with partners and growers to ensure grapes are sourced to TWE requirements and quality targets, including
  • Onboarding new growers
  • Managing grower’s adoption of TWE “best practice” models and protocols (e.g. pruning, yield management, disease management, sustainability)
  • Assessing fruit for maturity, quality and compliance with TWE standards
  • Co-ordinating pick decisions, intake logistics and winery planning
  • Co-ordinate vintage vineyard and fruit grading practices, procedures and reporting
• Working with winery partners to ensure fruit is processed to TWE requirements and style, including
  • Functional responsibilities as required to manage production steps in the winery.
  • Accurate and timely cellar note generation and communication to cellar
  • Timely preparation of all bottling wines to meet the scheduled production dates. Ensuring wines are compliant and in-spec (LIP requirements, quality requirements and style requirements).
  • Quality assurance of all responsible wines through periodic organoleptic and chemical monitoring, to ensure suitable style and quality is maintained. 
• Develop and maintain a system for capturing information of potential available fruit and processing capacity within regions
• Source, compile and provide information (reports, presentations, proposals, etc) to support planning and operational requirements 
• Partner and build relationships with key external suppliers (transport carriers, industry bodies).

About you

With Tertiary qualifications preferably in Winemaking, you will have 3+ years proven experience in vineyard and winery operations in China and good understanding of Viticulture cycle and different Chinese viticulture regions.

• Understanding of Winery operations from grape intake to bottling
• Quality driven winemaking 
• Competency in wine sensory evaluation
• Understanding China and international wine food safety and regulations 
• Winery or food processing experience
• WSET 3 (preferred)
• Able to travel extensively to partner sites.

What’s in it for you

• Access to the world’s most admired wines through our employee product allowance
• True flexibility in determining how, when and where you work to achieve your potential
• Global opportunities across Australia & New Zealand, the US, Asia, UK/Europe
• Opportunity to build a career across multiple functions (we’re really good at doing this!)
• Structured development programs to support your health, wellbeing and career
• “TWEforME Day” – an additional day of leave each year, for you to do you

 

Culture

We bring our whole selves, we’re courageous and we deliver together – that’s our DNA.  We’re a passionate bunch who enjoy working together, like to have fun and keep things down-to-earth.  We’re brave enough and care enough to have the right conversations to get the best outcome and are famous for our can-do attitude.  We’re definitely “glass half full” people and see challenges as opportunities and move with pace to achieve our goals.

If you’re ready to help us be the world’s most admired premium wine company, please apply now!

How To Apply

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