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Without the financial wherewithal to work in the pricier precincts, they instead buy grapes from distinctive vineyards wherever they can find them.” https://mdc.wine/press/sfchron-7-festive-sparkling monthly 0.5 2024-10-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef15b0313f16c53345ab3ca/1612307433151-PHCGVGONUN2CE14OZ9H3/sfchroniclesparkling.jpg Press - PRESS: San Francisco Chronicle - 7 festive California sparkling wines to celebrate making it through 2020 - “I’ve been drinking a lot of bubbly lately — it’s a surefire way to liven up a dreary winter evening under California’s new lockdown — and have found so many compelling bottles.” https://mdc.wine/press/berkeleyside-berkeley-wineries-rally-during-uncertain-times monthly 0.5 2024-10-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef15b0313f16c53345ab3ca/1603388838891-REP1X5EYRC1DNXLYCOGH/Screen+Shot+2020-10-22+at+10.44.08+AM.png Press - PRESS: Berkeleyside - Berkeley wineries rally during uncertain times - New opportunities in the new normal Co-owners of Berkeley’s newest winery, Maître de Chai, Marty Winters and Alex Pitts, met as cooks in the kitchen at Cyrus in Healdsburg. MDC, as it’s affectionately known, was supposed to open a simple tasting room in May. When COVID derailed that plan, the duo flexed their creative muscles, put up a pizza oven, and have been hosting tastings and serving wood-fired pizza made at the winery in their parking lot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef15b0313f16c53345ab3ca/1603388723502-XU2GCC2KUWT3PDU0D2VF/10_18_20_winery_maitre_chai-10.jpg Press - PRESS: Berkeleyside - Berkeley wineries rally during uncertain times - The tasting room is what keeps the lights on “We call these pop-up pizza events and tastings Posteggio,” said Winters. Italian for parking lot, Posteggio patrons can expect two pizza options: a simple Margherita and a special selection, which to date has included toppings such as pepperoni, sausage, and pepper or ‘nduja and mint. 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She moved to California to be a management consultant at Deloitte, went to business school at Berkeley-Haas with a stopover at Microsoft, and landed at a fintech startup in Oakland called Marqeta where she is a product manager. She runs much of the back-end MDC infrastructure, like this website, and puts her hands & feet in most of the fermentations each harvest. She bakes elaborate treats, overuses pivot tables to solve all math-adjacent problems, peer pressures the rest of the group into booking travel, and enforces hydration standards. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef15b0313f16c53345ab3ca/1630001775997-VHTILR5S5J6IJ5F3OAPV/20210731-IMG_6479.jpg Our Story - Make it stand out Alex Pitts Alex started working in restaurants in Phoenix, AZ as soon as he turned 16. He moved to San Francisco in 2008, working as a chef at Nopalito, Aqua, Cav Wine Bar, Siros, Cyrus, and The French Laundry. 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