Winter 2022 Letter, Casa Carmen Wines

Por um escritor misterioso

Last updated 21 março 2025

These quarterly letters have become a series of meditations and explorations on the reason for being of our task as makers and drinkers of wine, as makers and eaters of food, and as members of this community, of this humble but great house that we call Casa Carmen.
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 been deemed by many not only untranslatable but undefinable