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Wine Tasting?

I work for a promotional agency right now doing different types of promos but lately, I've been getting a lot of jobs to conduct wine tastings. I've grown to enjoy it too and was wondering what it would be like to work at an actual winery. Does anyone have any experience to share? Okay, I already know what skills you need to qualify as I already conduct tastings around my state. -so wine tours sounds nice... Anyone have anything to add about benefits or perks?

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1. No. Lol. 2 points :D
2. I love Wine!! Thanks for the points!!!
3. I don't know first hand but of course the internet is the best place to find that info.
4. I'm assuming you're talking front of the house - sales. I've gone to many wineries for tasting. The bigger wineries have large gift shops besides wine tastings. For those places, I would think it's just like any retail job. Smaller wineries... I can see it get kind of boring during the week since not too many people do wine tasting during the weekdays.
5. Its long hard tedious work. But most smaller wineries actually rely on volunteer help. Its usually called "friends of the winery". You go out pick grapes or whatnot. You make all sorts of friends and eventually get a bottle of something you helped make. Start there.
6. I interviewed for a position working in the Tasting Room at a winery. The job sounded like a lot of fun....meeting people from around the world...learning about wine...getting free wine from time to time. But I have to say the pay was *awful*...and most people worked on commission.
7. First of all, you'll have to start on just weekends before it turns into a normal 9-5 job. It is interesting, but you have to know tons about wines, proper serving, have good speaking skills, a great appearance, and know computer stuff, inventory, and be able to lift 44-55 pounds easily, before they'll even hire you. Also, you'll probably conduct winery tours too which is where the speaking part comes in. And, you'll probably near the end of the day end up buffing hundreds of crystal glasses. Don't get me wrong though, it's very interesting!