Casa Carmen Farm & Winery

Casa Carmen, more than a winery, is an afternoon under the sun. It is a voyage to the south of some distant place. It is an invitation and a proposal to view life not as it is, but as it should be! It is an elegy for a simpler world and an ode for the one to come. It is the confession of the dreamer. It is a grand gesture with a wooden sword - a long pause and a rapture. It is saffron, tobacco, and plump clusters of grapes. It is a gathering of earth, sky, divinities and mortals under one room, in one glass, in a courtyard between stone wall and green ivy. Brothers Enrique and Felipe Pallares grew up in Ecuador. They spent their teenage years and twenties traveling the world as polo players. Though it might seem like they have lived many different “lives,” they really have spent most of their time in bars and around kitchen tables. They started Casa Carmen in 2017 with the mission of crafting wine, vermouth, and food and of sharing the fullness of that way of life with a broader community.