Pride Mountain Vineyards, a family-owned and operated winery perched high atop the Mayacamas Mountains between St. Helena and Santa Rosa, is looking for a Harvest Intern for the 2025 season (August – December).

Interested candidates should be hardworking, kind, considerate and eager to learn.

Essential qualifications:

•  Authorization through CAEP.org for international candidates
•  Authorization to work in the US
•  A driver’s license valid in California
•  Ability to communicate clearly in English (spoken and written)
•  Ability to perform demanding physical work (indoor and outdoor) including but not limited to lifting 50 lbs. repeatedly, positioning heavy equipment, bending, climbing, pulling or squatting for long periods
•  Sufficient math proficiency to accurately add, subtract, divide and multiply
•  Ability to obtain forklift certification (training and testing provided by winery)
•  Ability to understand and comply with all safety training requirements

Preferred qualifications:

•  B.S. in Viticulture, Enology or a related field
•  Two or more harvests worked
•  Prior forklift training

Typical duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to:

•  Daily fermentation management including pump overs, punch downs, rack & returns and stirring
•  Vineyard and fermentation sampling
•  Sanitation of cellar and crush equipment
•  Wine movements including tank-to-tank transfers, racking, and barreling down
•  Fruit processing including receiving, pressing, dumping, de-stemming and crushing
•  Fermentation monitoring including sampling for Brix, temperature and lab samples
•  Inoculations and additions

Interested candidates should include their resume and a brief letter of introduction.