Tasting Room Host
Sokol Blosser Winery
Dayton, Oregon
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JOB DETAILS
SALARY
$16–$23
LOCATION
Dayton, Oregon
POSTED
11 days ago
Our Tasting Room Host is a key contributor with a strong background in wine hospitality, capable of independently managing the flow of guests in the Tasting Room with general direction. This role is dedicated to maintaining the highest standards of hospitality, ensuring that every guest enjoys a memorable and exceptional wine country experience at Sokol Blosser. The primary responsibility is to create a welcoming environment where guests can engage with our wines and brand in an authentic, enriching way.
Essential Duties:
Essential Duties:
- Represents the winery’s brand through the Tasting Room experience, delivering exceptional customer service and ensuring a welcoming atmosphere for every guest.
- Sets the tone for customer hospitality, overseeing reservations and ensuring a smooth and consistent flow of the Tasting Room. Works closely with the Tasting Room Manager to proactively address and resolve customer concerns.
- Provides a high-quality phone experience, promptly answering inquiries and ensuring every call is handled with professionalism and courtesy.
- Manages the reservation system, ensuring that guest flow is efficient and that Tasting Room associates receive equal business volume throughout shifts.
- Maintains a clean and inviting space, assisting with regular upkeep of the Tasting Room and restroom areas.
- Collaborates with peers and management to assess performance, strategize improvements, and identify new opportunities for enhancing the guest experience.
- Performs additional tasks as needed to support tasting room operations.
Skills & Abilities:
- 1+ years of hospitality experience (wine, retail, restaurant, etc.).
- Enthusiastic about wine and the wine/food lifestyle.
- Able to work well in a team environment and with customers.
- Strong organizational skills with attention to detail.
- Strong reasoning, judgment, and problem-solving skills.
- Creative thinking skills and ability to think outside the box.
- A desire to learn about anything and everything.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Able to lift and carry 45 lbs.; able to stand and or walk for prolonged periods.
- Be 21 years of age and have or can obtain an OLCC server’s permit.
Position Comments:
- Team environment, robust benefit package, and competitive pay.
- The position is hourly; variable schedule.
- Base hourly pay plus tips, commissions, and gratuities can make up to $23 per hour.
Located in the heart of the beautiful Dundee Hills in Oregon wine country, we are one of the state’s LAST REMAINING pioneering wineries THAT IS STILL family-owned and operated. We are passionately committed to creating world-class wines that express our distinctive hillside vineyards. We also have a steadfast commitment to being good citizens in our community and good to the earth: we are a certified B Corp, our barrel cellar is LEED certified, and our estate vineyard is certified organic. If you are looking for a terrific opportunity to work for a company where no idea is left unturned and you can utilize your proven experience to make a difference, we would love for you to submit your complete resume and cover letter. We offer a competitive benefits package with medical, dental, vision and EAP, 401k and company match, generous PTO plan, and wine allocations.
Sokol Blosser is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status.
About Sokol Blosser Winery:
When our parents Susan Sokol and Bill Blosser planted their first vines in the Dundee Hills AVA (American Viticultural Area) of the Willamette Valley 1971, they needed all of their youthful self-confidence, energy and determination to make their way because, at the time, there was no wine industry in Oregon. Today, with over 900 wineries and more than 37,000 acres of planted vineyards, Oregon has grown exponentially and its wines are available throughout the world. Sokol Blosser has survived, grown and prospered as a family-owned and run operation, and we are proud to have been part of developing and shaping Oregon’s now prominent wine industry. We create wines of world class quality that are produced sustainably, mindful of the environment, that express the distinctive flavors of our hillside vineyards. Sokol Blosser wines reflect who we are – our values and our sense of place. We hope you enjoy them.
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