oenologist
Code 2145.1.7
The oenologist (enóloga) leads winemaking: grape quality, cellar processes, wine style and often the link to the vineyard. Use this Job Dictionary profile to capture Chilean winery intent for a technical wine profile (near the sommelier use case).
Essential skills
Knowledge
- biotechnology
- financial capability
- wine characteristics
- food and beverage industry
- wine blending
- pathogenic microorganisms in food
- winery production process
- wine fermentation process
- fermentation processes of beverages
- beverages filtration processes
- types of wine
- variety of grapes
Skills and competences
- store wine
- analyse samples of food and beverages
- apply HACCP
- apply GMP
- apply requirements concerning manufacturing of food and beverages
- assist bottling
- monitor temperature in manufacturing process of food and beverages
- mark differences in colours
- filter wine
- manage wine cellar inventory
- handle wine sales
- blend beverages
- tend wine manufacturing machines
- prepare containers for beverage fermentation
- perform sensory evaluation of food products
- perform detailed food processing operations
- operate pasteurisation processes
Transversal competences
- monitor the process of wine production
- set production facilities standards
- exert quality control to processing food
- quality assurance methodologies
- check bottles for packaging
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What to assess for this role
Assess sensory judgment, process rigour and communication with agronomy and commercial.
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Common questions about this role when you are hiring or writing the job profile.
- What does an oenologist do?
- Decides and controls winemaking from grape intake through ageing and product release.
- Oenologist vs sommelier?
- The oenologist makes the wine; the sommelier selects and communicates wine to guests. Not the same role.
- What to assess when hiring an oenologist?
- Harvest track record, style fit with the winery and cellar teamwork.
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences