Our tasting room and tapas bar at our home vineyards is located in the beautiful Brandywine Valley, about 15 minutes from Longwood Gardens, on a historic property in the rolling hills of Chester County.
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Our wines and vermouths are made with local grapes in an old world style.
The result?
Drinkability, as long days turn into even longer nights.
A dark, mysterious vermouth, made for long afternoons and evenings by the fire.
A bright, dry, fruity sparkling wine, scooped from the waves of the sea as they break.
Our Verde is a friend of ripe lemons and fresh water springs. It is zesty like verjus and rich like the estuary of the lowlands. It is the yearning for all things green, beneath a gypsy moon. Green wind, green branches.
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.
Was visiting Baltimore last weekend and had the pleasure of trying Tender is the Night vermouth at a local gin bar. Hands down the best vermouth I’ve ever had (did a tasting in Spain last summer, and this blew even those vermouths out of the water). When I got home to NYC I had to order 4 bottles of the Tender is the Night, and 1 bottle of The Sun Also Rises, as I’ve yet to try Sun but I anticipate I will be needing additional bottles lol!
An unexpected and truly special place. The dry wines are the best in the region, and the vermouth is a revelation. West Grove is extremely lucky to be the landing place for the Pallares family who clearly know and love food, wine, and hospitality so well. Tempted to keep this little nook of Pennsylvania a secret for myself, but this place and this family deserve to be shared.
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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.
July 2026 Dear friends, It is high summer in our beloved Mid-Atlantic, and while a disorienting heat pushes sugar into the juicy clusters of grapes, I’d like to share some thoughts about time, memory, and forgetting. Memory is strange in a world that insists on forgetting. From the ephemeral quality...
Dear Friends, I am often asked what led our family to live the way that we do—together, running a business in a rather difficult industry that depends, as this year reminded us, on the whims of the weather. I have thought about this over the years, but every time I...
January 2026 Dear friends, I’d like to share a few thoughts on the unique identity of Casa Carmen—the spirit that animates this quixotic endeavor we call home. In ancient Greece, the term ξενία (xenia), often translated as hospitality, named the sacred guest–friend relationship protected by Zeus. This inviolable moral obligation required the...
