Cellar Door Hosts - Central Otago - Summer 2025/2026

Do you love hospitality and providing exemplary customer service to ensure a world-class experience?

Are you passionate about wine?

We’re looking for enthusiastic team members who can bring their flair for hospitality to create engaging wine tasting & food experiences for our guests at The Shed in Central Otago. We are open five days per week (Wed – Sun), so the successful applicants will need to be available to work weekends and public holidays from November 2025 through to end of April 2026.

You will be great at:

• Showing your passion for excellent customer service
• Converting the guest’s positive experience into wine sales and brand loyalty
• Encouraging visitor loyalty and sign up to the wine club
• Supporting private experience and VIP events

Requirements

• Experience in hospitality, preferably in a tasting room and a restaurant environment

• A sales-orientated mindset - able to convert positive experiences into sales of wines, food, and merchandise
• An understanding of wine and genuine passion for all things wine
• Strong sales acumen
• English is essential, an additional language is a plus
• Legal rights to work in New Zealand

Benefits

What you can expect from us:

• We like to work hard, play hard – great team building opportunities
• Reliable daytime hours (we are open 5 days per week, Wed to Sun)
• In this role you will receive a comprehensive induction, including in-depth training on our wine range, brand and customer service
• A generous wine and food discount at our cellar door
• Staff events and team experiences
• A team uniform will be provided