Peter Kasprzak

Responsibilities included :-

• All operations on site, hands on and managerial, including wine style creation, wine label design, lab testing, all winery expenditure, reporting only to Chief Financial Officer and Owner with total annual revenue of US$2,000,000, and production of approx 150,000L of wine.
• Winery’s/Vineyards future direction.
• Management of all personnel on site, warehousing duties, and winery tasting room/merchandise.
• Maintenance of all winery equipment, and ordering.
• All grape purchases, and grape quality assessment.
• All public speaking, print media, live television, PR events, including VIP tours for CEO’s, international dignitaries, and company owners of the winery.
• Active communications between all departments of the Chateau Élan Resort.

Major Achievements

• Increased wholesale orders by 43% per month.
• Increased bottom line winery profit by 33% in a single year.
• Broke all records in terms of profit over a single year, and for highest month on record.
• Re-established a new winery tour program in collaboration with the culinary department of the resort which earned over US$10,000 per year.
• Recruited and trained the cellar crew for the winery.
• Established the first test vineyard in Georgia with over 15 different varietals with differing rootstocks.
• Re-designed all Chateau Élan wine labels, and created new labels for new products.

REFEREES: 
Greg Olsen – Vineyard Manager 
678 855 3203 
Jessica Fifer – Wine Market Manager 
678 855 3187 
Tom Purcell – Multi Media Marketing Manager 
770 867 9798 x 5 
Paul DeBoer - Marketing Co-ordinator 
770 867 9798 x 2 
 
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE 
Dec 2005 – August 2007 Chief Winemaker, Southern Hills Winery, (Iowa).

 
Responsibilities included:-

• All winemaking operations on site, 15,000 gallons/ 56,000 liters made in 11 different styles.
• Hired and trained all winery staff including wine market sales, wholesale sales, and cellar hands.
• The health and safety handbooks and all staff related issues.
• All purchases, and grape assessment.
• Established a complete tour/tasting program.
• Created all tasting notes, and associated literature for the winery.

Major Achievements

• Created a range of 11 wines of which 9 sold out completely in a single year.
• 2 Silver medals and a bronze medal from the Mid American Wine Competition.
• 4 Blue Ribbons from the Iowa State Fair.
• Created all wine labels.
• Coordinated over 200 different shareholders, with 50 different small volume growers.

Referees: 
 

David Kephart – President of Southern Hills Winery Co-op.

323 697 4193

Steve Kephart – Director of Sales/Wholesales

515 250 3044 
 

July – December 2005, Chief Winemaker, Meyer Vineyards, Nebraska.

Responsibilities included all site operations. Approximately 25 tones of premium estate fruit crushed. 
 
2005 Winemaker, Casella Wines, New South Wales, Australia. 
Responsibilities included all facets of large company winemaking. Approximately 120,000 tones crushed. 
 
2004 Cellar Hand, Tahbilk Winery, Victoria, Australia. 
Responsibilities included all facets of cellar hand work. 
 
2003 Winemaker, Tumbarumba Grape Processors, New South Wales. 
Responsibilities included all day to day running operations of the processing plant. 
 
2001/2002, Orlando Wyndham Graduate Program, Adelaide, South Australia. 
This was a paid full assistant winemaker position. I have been involved in large testing’s (500 wines in a week) during my time at Orlando Wyndham. I was exposed to many different styles of wine, and been engaged in numerous international wine testing’s. I have had experience with all manner of machinery, including Micro-oxidation techniques. 
 
 

Outside of vintage I participated in the Orlando Wyndham Classification testing’s for red, white, and sparkling wines, for 2001 and 2002 vintages.  I also participated in all relevant Orlando Wyndham Group tasting panels, wine shows, conferences, training seminars, and competitor testing’s. 
 
Vintage 2002 Jan-April - Poets Corner Winery, Mudgee, NSW, Australia 
Red and White production. 
 
Vintage 2001 March-April - Rowland Flat, NSW, Australia 
Red production 
 
Vintage 2001 Jan-March - Rowland Flat, NSW, Australia 
White production. 
All second halves of the year were split equally between the Roland Flat (White/Sparkling production), and the Richmond Grove site (Red). 
 

2000 Vintage Cellar Hand, St Hallett Winery, Barossa Valley, South Australia 
 

Responsible for all facets of cellar work mainly in the red area, together with responsibility for writing SOPS for most equipment. 
 
CURRENT CERTIFICATES AND LICENCES 
Advanced Wine Assessment Course Certificate 
American car license/Australian car license. 
First Aid CPR certificate. 
Forklift license. 
 
ACADEMIC AWARDS 
1991 National Chemistry Competition - Distinction 
 
INTERESTS 
Wine, reading, philosophy, theoretical physics, skydiving, snow skiing. 
 
Written references available upon request, along with all certificates and qualifications.