He told police at the time that he felt fine to drive, the court heard.
Judge Barry sentenced him to three months' community detention, 80 hours' community work and disqualified him from driving indefinitely.
Pittams was told by Judge Barry that if he drove again while drunk "you will be staring at a prison cell".
Aaron Barry McGrath, 28, of Judge: Next time it's jail
Masterton, received a similar message.
McGrath had a breath alcohol reading of 694mcg per litre of breath when stopped at a police checkpoint on May 25. The legal limit is 400.
It was his fourth drink-driving conviction.
"Be under no illusion you'll be turning the key in your own cell door," Judge Barry told McGrath, before he sentenced him to three months' community detention, fined him $650 plus costs of $132.89 and disqualified him from driving for 12 months and a day.
Frederick Edward Wallis, 23, a dairy farm worker, had a breath alcohol level of 764mcg when stopped by police on May 26. He had earlier turned off the road before a police checkpoint.
Judge Barry noted that a pre-sentence report said Wallis did not accept he had a drinking problem. "You'd be the only person who thought that, with three convictions in two years."
Wallis was sentenced to 150 hours' community work, nine months' supervision and disqualified from driving indefinitely.