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Hend Letaief, PhD, Joins Enartis USA as Technical Director

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Hend LeaiefWindsor, CA – 5/2/2016 – Enartis USA is pleased to announce that Hend Letaief has joined us as Technical Director. In this new position, Hend will coordinate all technical aspects of Enartis USA, working closely with our Lab Manager, Max Burmeister, to optimize the services provided by our ISO Accredited Laboratory. She will coordinate technical support provided by our team of winemakers and application specialists to better support our customers in using Enartis services and products. In addition, Hend will manage research projects developed by Enartis in the Unites States, work in collaboration with our research teams around the world, lead education programs through our workshops and seminars, and administer the internal training of our sales team.

José Santos, President and CEO of Enartis USA said: “After solidifying our presence in the North American market since the acquisition of Vinquiry in 2009, in 2016 we started a new chapter of Enartis in the USA. We have grown to be one of the research centers for Enartis, having already contributed to the development of solutions tailored to the American Wine Industry such as the Enartis Ferm WS dry, the new yeast for Pinot noir isolated from the Annapolis vineyard at the Campbell Ranch in collaboration with Vinquiry’s founder, Marty Bannister. This growth of our company requires a solid, coordinated base of people and knowledge, and Dr. Hend Letaief possesses all the skills and knowledge necessary to manage this key position and maximize the exceptional work done by our team of winemakers, enologists, and application specialists.”

Hend Letaief grew up in Tunisia, a country where wine culture has long been an integral part of society. Her fascination for wine chemistry started when she was studying food engineering and continued when she relocated to Europe. She earned a Master’s Degree in Viticulture and Enology from Montpellier SupAgro and a PhD in Food Science and Technology from the University of Turin. Dr Letaief joined Fresno State in 2013 as an assistant professor of wine chemistry and worked on projects related to oxygen management, grape texture and phenolic extractability. She is the author of Winemaking Process in Valorization of Winemaking By-Products and Texture Analysis for the Definition of Wine Grape Quality.

About Enartis USA:

Beginning as the pioneering Vinquiry Wine Laboratory in the early days of the modern US wine industry, Enartis USA is now a leading supplier to the North American Wine Industry. In addition to the high-quality analytical services provided by its network of laboratories, Enartis USA is a leading supplier of winemaking products and laboratory supplies.

The ISO 17025:005 Accreditation of our main laboratory verifies the high-quality of analytical services that we provide our clients, which range from basic chemistry testing to most recent techniques such as Real Time Quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR), a molecular biology technique for the detection of spoilage microorganisms, and grape and wine phenolic analysis (Phenolic Fingerprint), among many others.

In January of 2009, we became part of the multi-national company Esseco Group, which manufactures the Enartis range of premium winemaking products. Being part of the world leading manufacturer of winemaking products has allowed us to incorporate the technologically advanced Enartis range into our extensive product offerings, as well to develop tailored solutions for the US wine industry. Enartis USA is a leading supplier of winemaking products, with the capability to meet the needs of wineries of all sizes.

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