We’re a family winery located in Mendocino and Lake Counties looking to hire someone to help us with selling our wines through farmer’s markets.
This is an ideal Part-Time/Side Gig job for for those with significant wine experience or for anyone looking to get a start in the wine business.
If not already familiar, you’ll have the opportunity to learn extensively about the Mendocino/Lake County wine region and work directly with the family behind Dancing Crow Vineyards.
What We Need:
Someone to help work *either*
Saturday Sunnyvale Farmers Market, from 9am - 1pm
Saturday Castro Valley Farmers Market, from 9am - 1pm
Saturday Santa Clara Farmers Market, from 9am - 1pm
General Requirements:
• Sales and/or wine experience.
• Access to a car with ample storage space and able to transport supplies to and from market.
• Willing to pick up and drop off kit and product at storage facility in either South SF or Corte Madera (if you have space, you are also welcome to keep your kit and wine with you).
• Willing to lift and carry 45+ lbs of product repeatedly.
• Access to a smartphone (for square payments)
• Comfortable setting up a stand and working outside.
• Willing to work flexible hours and early on weekends.
• Must be 21+ years old.
Preferred Requirements:
• Previous farmers’ market experience and/or background in beverage, sales or hospitality.
Compensation:
$200/per market base pay + $5/bottle commission on anything sold above 24 bottles (2 cases of wine).
Training:
• Depending on experience level, we also offer some paid training shifts before starting a market.
About Us:
Dancing Crow Vineyards is the culmination of multiple generations of wine experience and the collective energies of the Cartlidge-Forni family.
Winemaker, Scott Kirkpatrick, contributes his shared knowledge to create stylistically unique wines for California.
Since starting in 2014, Dancing Crow Vineyards has gone on to become one of the most renowned wineries in Lake County.
The winery boasts just over 56 acres of distinctive terroir with soils ranging from volcanic loam to sediment clay.
Our small team looks to provide a fun work-life balance, which involves visits to the vineyard, wine education and the opportunity to pioneer one of the most exciting new wine regions in California.