West Grove, PA
Nestled on a hillside in the Brandywine Valley, Casa Carmen Farm and Vineyard is the heart of our polycultural work. It is a narrow valley and a hillside where we grow grapes, botanicals, vegetables for our tasting room and where we use sheep and chickens for our biodynamic farming practices. Casa Carmen’s tasting room offers seasonal tapas and small bites along with our wines and vermouth as well as local beer and rotating cocktails.
Chestertown, MD
Serving wine and tapas, our tasting room is created in the spirit of the traditional wine bodegas of Spain and South America—an unpretentious place to drink well, eat well, and enjoy good company.
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Together, these wizards of bonhomie have conjured up all sorts of new opportunities for the good people of Chestertown to gather together over a bottle of wine and a plate of paella—working their community magic and paving the future for their young business along the way.
Casa Carmen has developed an exceptional collection of wines. Not only for our region, but when we compare them against our national and international selections. They are well balanced, flavorful, and easily enjoyed with and without food.
Brothers Enrique and Felipe Pallares are combining the competitive drive that led them to become professional polo players with the entrepreneurial spirit passed down by their pioneering predecessors in an effort to create world-class wine.
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Our golden-rayed sweet, white vermouth, The Sun Also Rises, is made with our wine, saffron of suntanned valleys, wild cardamom, wormwood, fresh Spanish oranges, and bitter Californian lemon. Our barrel-aged black vermouth, Tender is the Night, is made from the best local grapes and natural herbs and spices, black walnuts from our farm, and oranges of Seville.
Letters from the vineyard.
I have mentioned in a previous letter the story of how during the Roman era, the inhabitants of the province of Hispania, which is now Spain, pronounced the word vivere (to live) as bibere (to drink). This is why it is said that Julius Caesar would joke by saying, “Beati hispani quibus vivere est...
I was recently by myself having lunch in Düsseldorf, Germany, on the shores of the Rhine River—sharing a table outside with strangers and eating chopped bratwurst with curry sauce from a food truck while drinking an Altbier. The air was crisp and the sky overcast, but the budding star magnolias on...
As many of you know, Argentina is very close to our heart. My brother Felipe and I spent some of our most formative years there. It is a place and a culture of turmoil and freedom, of disorder and striking beauty. It is a place that, in many ways, feels...
