Wine & Chisme

Wine: 2018 "Camilla" Pinot Noir, Casa Martinez (Los Carneros Area)

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Daniel Martinez began his winemaking education at Hall Wines. After a year in the vineyards, he moved to Robert Mondavi Winery for the 2006 harvest and spent 7 years there. At Mondavi, he had the opportunity to be involved in many hands-on projects, including a grape-to-barrel winemaking project, where he was able to observe and participate in the entire experience from the vineyard, to crush, to cellar logistics and bottling prep, to the finished wine in bottle. 

He joined the To Kalon fermentation team at Mondavi, learning all about fermentation of high-end wines while working alongside experts that became his mentors. His palate and taste for fine wine was developed in the first and second year Reserve aging rooms. Doing every kind of job — whether working with Master Cooper Quinn Roberts taking care of the wooden tanks or barrel rackings, as well as working with Gustavo Gonzales making press cuts of red wines and Rich Arnold when working with the whites — the learning process was endless. His education expanded to master all phases of winemaking from harvest to bottling, from grape to bottle.

Today Daniel brings 17 years of hands-on winemaking experience working with different local producers and winemakers in the Sonoma and Napa area. He earned a degree in winemaking from Napa Valley College and a WSET L3 advanced wine certification to complement his hands-on winemaking experience.

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Elisabeth Rosario is an outsourced communications strategist that works with startups of all sizes and venture capital firms. As an independent contractor since 2016, her clients have included venture firms such as: Lux Capital, Renegade Ventures, Spero Ventures (sole LP is Pierre Omidyar), Equal Ventures, RRE Ventures, and Innovation Endeavours (founding partner Eric Shmidt). Startup clients have included: Sonoro, Koinz, Pattern Brands, Pitch, ServiceTitan, Own It (a book) by Ellevest’s Sallie Krawcheck, Emi Couple, Token, Flutterwave, Morty, Looking Glass Factory, Eight Sleep, Dipsea, Loft Orbital, and more.

Previously, Elisabeth was the Director of Communications at Spark Capital, an early stage venture capital firm that has backed companies like Twitter, Oculus VR, Slack, Warby Parker and Cruise Automation (acquired by GM). As the firm’s first in-house communications hire, she helped startup founders and the firm's investment team to develop and share their points of view with the world. She also helped to lead platform initiatives with the firm's community of entrepreneurs: building infrastructure, resources and programming to empower and connect over 100 portfolio companies.

Before that, Elisabeth was a key part of the growth of various PR agencies where she led media relations campaigns for over 100 disruptive entrepreneurs and startups including Rakuten’s Buy.com, Trello, ClassPass, HowAboutWe, HelloFresh, Squarespace, Zola and Academy award-winning sci-fi film Ex Machina. In 2015, Adweek named Elisabeth on its 30 Under 30 in the PR Industry list. In 2018, Bustle named her on their list of Must-Follow Latinx.  She’s a graduate of Baruch College's Zicklin School of Business.

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Nancy is the Founder and CEO of Chi-est Beauty, a natural skincare line with a focus on natural deodorant. Nancy is trying to help as many people have a successful transition to natural deodorant as conventional deodorant has been linked to many illnesses, so let do something about it and this is where I come in.

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A proud product of public schools in NY and former classroom teacher, Yanely is now on a mission to improve the education system by adding financial literacy and personal education as a course that all students have guaranteed access to. CNBC has called her “the millennial fighting for Gen Z to learn about money in school.”

Website: www.mindyourmoneybook.com

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Wine: Parra Wines, 2019 Chardonnay

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PARRA Wine Co was established in 2019 by proprietor Sam Parra. His last name is a Spanish and Portuguese surname meaning grapevine or trellis.

Born and raised in St. Helena, CA, he was destined to be in the wine industry. After rising through the ranks for 15 years in both Napa and Sonoma counties, Sam moved to the Willamette Valley in the summer of 2016 to begin this journey.

PARRA Wine Co is and will remain a boutique, hand crafted wine producer. Over the years Sam has cultivated friendships with highly respected growers that share the same passion and dedication to the craft.

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Wine: Fathia Wines, 2019 Rosé

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Maria Alquicira was born and raised in Mexico where her curiosity for art started. She then studied Arts and Culture in Rome and is currently living in Dallas. Passionate about art and businesses she has developed professionally in the arts and culture sphere through her art practice and in business through her job at one of the biggest movie theater companies in the world. This project is all about a determination to set her life purpose to make art part of our daily lives.

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Wine: RG|NY Cabernet Franc

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Che Guerrero has spent 16 years tackling race, politics, and family through stand-up comedy. Che's style is rooted in his experiences growing up undocumented. A revolutionary voice on the modern comedy scene, His sense of humor and command of the stage is the result of obstacles often unseen by the average American.

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Wine: Justicia Wines, Themes Pinot Noir, 2020

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Helen Pelayo Masferrer

A mother of 3 that at 30 years old completely transformed her life by making a simple promise to sweat for 30 min every day. 2 years laters she lost 100lbs, landed a dream job at a brand new gym, and met her wife. They now own our own gym in Oregon where I get to have the space to empower the community through health and fitness everyday!

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Jazmin Montero

Jazmin Montero is a Costa Rican mama living in the mountains of the midwest. She wears a lot of hats and is a UX designer, illustrator and doula. As a doula she has found a great passion for the postpartum period & menstruation. She founded The Postpartum Revolution Conference in 2019, and now in 2022 she is gearing up to launch The Womb School Podcast. When she is not nerding out on womb health or creating beautiful designs for her community, she is out adventuring with her familia.

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Wine: Aldina Vineyards, Chardonnay

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Cadena is the Spanish word for chain. It is their belief that women are not bound by societal chains or expectations of the roles they should play in the modern age. When women unite like chains, they are stronger, powerful and more resilient.

Cadena also happens to be the street name of the home in Mexico, in which owners, Mabel and Alejandra took their first steps and the home they left at the age of six and eight years old, when their mother immigrated to the United States. Their name is a symbol of how life has changed and how moving from Calle Cadena to the United States has given them a world of opportunities. They want to share that opportunity with women who may feel bound by the expectations their family, friends or society has placed on them. Working with women artisans and sharing their talents is a revolution of love, empowerment and the journey towards self-realization.

Website: https://www.cadenacollective.com

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Join myself and a panel that includes Avenida Productions Founders Fanny Grande and Nelson Grande, Evelyn Alsultany, an expert on representation on Arabs & Muslims in media, and Eliana Reyes, Actor, Model and Host of LATV Roots as we discuss Representation in Media.

This live Wine & Chisme Podcast event wouldn’t have been possible without our in-kind sponsors including:

And I would like to thank my friends Heidi Rojas for her performance at the live event as well as Yvonne Hernandez for providing a pre-panel meditation. 

And of course, to all those who attended and made my dreams come true….I appreciate you more than you could ever know. Muchos abrazos to you all.