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.
Wine is a solace. Wine is a pause. Wine is a vast field under the sun and a soft spot of grass under the shade. Wine is rain on parched land and sunlight after the storm. Wine is a truce and a herald of light that speaks of better places....
This compilation of letters have come to be my favorite corner of our website, which we have titled “In Search of el Duende.” The title is, of course, a nod to Spanish poet Federico García Lorca, who worked, perhaps more than anyone, to communicate the meaning of duende, a term that has...
The table is one of the most familiar and intimate objects of our life. But familiarity often hides meaning, as we don’t really ask questions about familiar things in the way that we ask questions about strange ones. We are used to them and therefore we don’t wonder what they...
