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SalaryABOUT THE ROLE
Based out of Brompton, the main role of the Wine Tour Guide/Driver is to safely drive international and interstate guests from city hotels through scenic wine country, while providing meaningful, personal, informational connection with guests.
While itineraries and daily organisation will be taken care of for you at first, you will eventually be required to manage the itinerary, winery bookings, and facilitation of your scheduled days from start to finish. By building rapport with and understanding of each winery, building your own itineraries will allow you to inject your own personality and flair into the role.
The position also requires you to carry out the daily inspection, cleaning, and fueling of the vehicles rostered.
The casual position ideally includes weekend work on a rotating basis.
Ideally suited to someone with flexibility to work more/less as demand changes over summer/winter months. Anyone with a serious interest in wine is recommended to apply.
SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
- Good understanding of wine production methods and styles would be highly regarded
- Ability to create rapport with customers from all walks of life
- Confidence to lead a group and make decisions
- Varied life/travel experience is helpful
- Confident driving ability a must
- No criminal history or serious driving charges on record
- Excellent customer service and communication skills
An ideal candidate would possess the following:
- Previous history working in a winery, cellar door, or WSET qualification
Any successful candidate will have to obtain SA Driver Accreditation which requires no drink driving charges under your name, a clean criminal record, and no serious health issues like diagnosed sleep apnoea, epilepsy, etc.
What we provide for you
- Quite a relaxed working role, meeting people from around the world, talking wine & travel
- Training will involve days as a passenger on tour becoming familiar with our preferred partners in the regions
- Flexible work roster over weekdays and/or weekends, with no night work required
- Room to add your own personality to the role
- Proven competence in the role will attract higher wages in time
- $32 per hour, x1.4 Saturday, x1.8 Sundays
ABOUT US
Operating high-end wine tours to the Barossa, McLaren Vale, and Adelaide Hills, we are a business created and run by winelovers, for winelovers. Our guests are mostly well-travelled and love good food and wine experiences.
We run both private and shared-group tours with a maximum group size of just six. We don't do tacky tourist traps, we don't allow bucks or hens parties, we have a strict no d!ckhead policy onboard. We want to help wine tourists connect with real brands and level-up their wine knowledge wherever possible, usually by visiting boutique wine brands and small-batch winemakers.
We do have a long list of preferred winery partners but we are always discovering more. Our itineraries are always flexible to the seasons, our guests interests, and the availability of the wineries.
