Tasting Room Associate

Benefits:

• Employee discounts
• Flexible schedule

Either Oar Whiskey Wine & Cheese Bar

If you have a passion for wine, enjoy connecting with people, and thrive in a warm, hospitality-focused environment, we'd love to meet you. As a Tasting Room Associate, you'll create memorable guest experiences by welcoming visitors, sharing knowledge about our wines and winery, and providing exceptional customer service. This role is perfect for someone who is enthusiastic, personable, and takes pride in making every guest feel welcome while representing our winery with professionalism and genuine hospitality.


Essential Job Functions:

Deliver a high-quality customer service experience for guests in the tasting room

• Perform tastings for winery guests
• Maintain appropriate display of inventory and wine for retail and tasting purposes
• Maintain the appearance of the tasting room through general upkeep and housekeeping
• Deliver a high-quality customer service experience at off-premises tastings and events
• Use of the POS/Square system to ensure accurate sales of products
• Perform all duties with the highest standard of quality and cleanliness. Responsible for the Financial Results of the tasting room

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions:

Education/Experience:

• Must be a friendly people person with a willingness to work hard
• Customer service experience required
• A desire to work with the public
• Wine knowledge is helpful but not required
• Basic mathematical and computer literacy, including POS system/Square

Work Schedule:

This position will require you to be available days, nights, weekends, and have the flexibility to work at our other locations when needed, including on- and off-site events.

Hourly wage + Tips

Compensation: $17.00 per hour


A Martin Family History

For more than thirty years, George Martin had been a beekeeper. George, along with wife, Virginia and son Ed, maintained and built a honey production and pollination business which contained two thousand hives and took place in Maine, New York, Florida and South Carolina.

In 1998 with dropping honey prices and increasing costs the family now with son Bill, began niche marketing their honey. Bill had always dabbled in mead making and home brewing. The Martin Family applied for a farm winery license in 1999 and commercial production of honey wine began. Soon after Martin's Honey Farm and Meadery in Sterling, New York was born.

In 2001, the Martin's realized the importance of their location in the fruit belt of New York and decided to try their hand at making fruit wines. The concept of Montezuma Winery was then formed. Montezuma Winery quickly took off and was a great success, so much so that we moved the production facilities and gift shop to our 14,000 square foot building in Seneca Falls. Although we do produce high-quality grape wines, the focus of our product line is still towards fruit and honey wines.

Montezuma Winery, Martin's Honey Farm and Meadery and Hidden Marsh Distillery have been awarded numerous awards including Gold, Double Gold, Best of Class, Best Fruit wine, and Commercial Mead Champion. Our wine list offers a range from dry to sweet and includes Riesling, Blueberry, Rhubarb and our most popular, Cranberry Bog.