Tasting Room Team
Welcome guests, guide wine choices, support table service, keep the room moving, and create a warm first impression.
- Guest-first communication
- Wine and menu confidence
- Clean, organized service habits
Join the team
Hospitality with heart.
Running Vines Winery is built around wine, community, and guests who feel cared for. If you enjoy people, pace, service, and a local tasting-room environment, this is a place to start the conversation.
Employment
Work where every shift has a story.
As a family-owned and operated winery, Running Vines depends on people who can make guests feel welcome from the first hello. The team helps visitors choose wines, understand the menu, enjoy events, and carry the Running Vines experience home in a bottle.
The best fit is friendly, dependable, curious, and comfortable moving between service, conversation, and details. Wine knowledge is helpful, but genuine hospitality matters most.
A tasting room is more than a bar.
It is part welcome desk, part neighborhood gathering place, part retail shop, part event room, and part guide to the wines guests will remember.
Possible opportunities
Where you can help.
Running Vines may hire across tasting-room service, events, guest support, and retail hospitality depending on season, availability, and business needs.
Events Support
Help prepare for live events, special nights, group visits, and community gatherings that bring people into the winery.
- Setup and reset support
- Fast-paced guest service
- Team-oriented execution
Retail & Wine Club
Support bottle sales, local product questions, wine club conversations, and guest follow-up that keeps the community connected.
- Helpful recommendations
- Attention to detail
- Friendly sales support
What we value
Warmth, pace, pride.
Running Vines serves guests who come for many reasons: a first tasting, a night out, a bottle for dinner, brunch hours, a celebration, or an event. Team members help make each of those reasons feel easy and worthwhile.
The environment rewards people who can stay calm when it is busy, upbeat when the room is full, and attentive when a guest needs guidance.
Friendly
You enjoy meeting people and making them comfortable.
Reliable
You show up prepared and ready to support the team.
Curious
You are willing to learn the wines and how to talk about them.
Local-minded
You take pride in representing a Chesterton business.
How to connect
Simple next steps.
Whether there is an open position today or not, the best way to begin is to introduce yourself clearly and show why you would be a strong fit for Running Vines hospitality.
1
Learn the place
Review the menu, events, hours, and story so you understand how the tasting room serves guests.
2
Send your interest
Email the team with your availability, experience, and why Running Vines feels like the right environment.
3
Start a conversation
If there is a fit, the winery team can follow up about current needs, timing, and next steps.
Apply or inquire
Ready to introduce yourself?
Send a brief note to the tasting room with your background, availability, preferred role, and any wine, restaurant, retail, or guest-service experience.
Helpful details to include
A short, specific message makes it easier for the team to understand where you could fit.
AvailabilityWeekdays, weekends, evenings, Sunday brunch hours, and seasonal flexibility.
ExperienceHospitality, service, retail, wine, events, or customer-facing work.
InterestWhy Running Vines and what kind of role sounds most natural for you.
ContactYour phone number, email, and best way to reach you.
