Company Profile
ETS LABORATORIES
Company Overview
ETS Laboratories is the worldwide leader in providing independent, ISO-accredited analytical services to the wine industry. We partner with the world’s greatest winemakers to provide them with innovative analytical tools of the highest quality and an unmatched expertise to support the art of winemaking.
Since we opened in 1978, ETS Laboratories has grown to five locations across the West coast with a staff whose knowledge covers a broad range of expertise. We recruit globally, and boast a highly trained team with a broad range of experience and advanced degrees.
Our yearlong internship program allows us to search out top new talent in the laboratory sciences worldwide, many of whom have stayed on to take full time positions and management roles.
Company History
We opened our doors in 1978 with a simple mission: to provide fast and accurate results. Since then, our clients have gone on to create many of the world’s finest wines, and as recognition of their accomplishments has grown, so has our laboratory.
At first, we concentrated on routine chemical analyses and basic microbiology. As the wine industry grew around us, our clients increasingly looked to ETS for more advanced analytical services. Over the last 40 years, we’ve developed new methods of analysis and introduced many new technologies to support the art of winemaking.
What started in the basement of Marjorie and Gordon’s St. Helena home has grown into one of the most advanced wine laboratories in the world.
The newest generation of technology at ETS has already delivered enormous benefits to our clients. Our new GC/MS and UHPLC “triple quad” (QQQ) instruments allow us to develop exclusive new analyses, expand our range of services, and enhance the performance of our existing analytical tools.
This new generation of triple quadrupole instruments delivers higher sensitivity and selectivity, for the most accurate quantitative results and identification of target compounds even in highly complex samples like wine.
Our recent research using QQQ technology has led to innovative new analyses that utilizes the extreme sensitivity of the Triple Quad Instruments to measure compounds found at very low trace levels in wine.
Our ISO-Accredited Multiplex quantitative PCR Scorpions™ genetic detection technology allows multiple reactions in one tube for unparalleled speed and efficiency. The ETS Scorpions panels provide extremely specific identification of spoilage microbes, through 3 separate DNA sequence matches. The assays utilize a combination of gene amplification and hybridization to accurately quantify the total number of viable cells in a sample, down to 10 cells/mL.
While we work to uphold our reputation as the one “sure thing” in wine analysis, we know that we must continue to provide exceptional service and earn the respect of our clients with each and every analytical result. At ETS, accuracy is more than a virtue – it’s a passion embraced by our entire staff. We are committed to offering the latest technology, operated by a dedicated and hardworking team with unrivaled expertise.
We operate on principles of integrity, innovation, and excellence: we keep our promises.
We’ve always been proud partners in the wine industry as it’s grown over the last few decades, and we continue our pledge to advance the science of winemaking. Our ongoing investments in research and new technologies have resulted in powerful new analytical tools and industry standard analyses to help winemakers enhance their craft. We continue to share our expertise with the winemaking community through our publications library and free educational seminars to support the advancing art of winemaking.
Benefits
We provide:
A competitive salary, based on experience
A student loan repayment program
Comprehensive employer-paid health and vision insurance
401k, FSA, and group life insurance
Support for productivity and continued learning through conference attendance, training courses, and learning materials
Offices near some of the world’s most beautiful vineyards