Alex Handley Email & Phone Number

Works directly with Winemaker in all facets of winemaking process. Ensures smooth workflow of winemaking operations, prioritizes tasks that need to be accomplished, and maintains the production calendar. Prepares work orders, assists in data management, maintains reports and inventory through Vintrace software. Reviews and implements SOPS for winery.

Mattawa, WA

Work directly with Head Winemaker and Assistant Winemaker to execute and make important winemaking decisions. Tastes wine inventory with Winemaking team to build familiarity with wine style and wine quality issues. Reports wine analysis to winemaking team and alerts them of any potential issues either with the analysis or with any off-aromas and or issues.

Quincy, WA

• Mange all the laboratory operations and staff. This includes all quality and aspects of the wine making process while driving business decisions based on the analytical results. Prioritizing work according to.
• Manage, supervise, and train all laboratory staff and seasonal workers. Follow company procedures for running various analyses for wine and juice samples.
• Conduct physical, chemical, and microbial analysis, including QC for bottling. Oversee and maintain laboratory safety, updating procedures and safety material data sheets.
• Manage and analyze the wine properly to ensure quality and health of the wine. Support the wine maker and consult on evaluating juice, taste and smell all the wine.
• Adheres to applicable procedures as they relate to Quality Control Department which include Quality Control Inspect for proper function of all production line and bottling equipment.
• Microbiology monitoring including swabbing and finished bottle plating. Prepares wine tanks prior to production and finished bottle analysis and perform incoming inspections to ensure supplies meet specifications.

Paso Robles, CA

• Routine operations production cellar work such as sanitation tanks, lines and equipment, cellar fittings, hoses, hoists, fixed process lines, stack and unstack barrels, barrel maintenance, and other wine processing.
• Wine movement for Harvest, grape receiving, pressing, pump overs, wine transfers, racking and barreling down, stirring and topping, filling and emptying and sampling.
• Wine movements - set-up and movement of wine and juice to and from tanks, barrels and tanker trucks. Forklift certified.
• Make additions to wine and juice after a confirmation of the calculations, blending chemistry and diligent record keeping.

Healdsburg, CA

• Evaluate the chemical characteristics of grapes throughout their maturation process, develop rapid chemical methods to measure and monitor positive grape attributes and defects, and correlate wine chemical.
• Working daily with various instruments within the laboratory to analyze various wine samples from our site as well as others. Inventory is taken weekly from tanks and barrels. Pulling various samples of the wine in a.
• Research and analyze phenolic compounds in wine and juice samples using the FTIR instrument.
• Proficient and comfortable with the following lab tools: Advia, FTIR, Auto Titrator, Alcolyzer, Carbon Dioxide and Dissolved Oxygen Meter, Flame AA Spectroscopy, Hand Titrating for Sulfur, Brix Meter, Refractometer.
• During the bottling process we check CO2 levels when bottling is in production.
• Experience working in a global organization.

Ellensburg, WA

• Gained the confidence of senior faculty to present subject matter to students. I lead labs using lectures and discussions and grade all lab reports.
• Responsible for supervising, tutoring and assisting all students to master assignments and reinforce chemistry learning concepts taught by professors.
• Comfortable working in a lab. Calibrate, standardize and inventory laboratory equipment, chemicals and any other functions as necessary.
• Instruct lab safety and maintain clean work stations at all times.
• Biochemistry skills: enzymes, proteins, amino acids and how they work in the body and other organisms. Perform protein analysis and enzyme characterizations.
• Quantitative analysis skills: proper lab technique for precision and accuracy with laboratory equipment and instruments Examples: volumetric flasks, volumetric pipettes, GCMS, FTIR, UV-vis spectrophotometer.