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More than just a cidery.  

Viola Orchards provides cider for all ages.  Whether you enjoy yours fermented with yeast or seasonally fresh pressed and unpasteurized.

Viola Orchards is an orchard based farm business in Estacada, OR.  Making a variety of farm products including hand grafted apple trees, apple scion, fresh pressed cider, preserves, and hand crafted fermented cider.

Cider making with intention. Viola Orchards.  Handcrafted, American heritage, branch to bottle cider in Estacada, Oregon.  Our unique flavor profile consists of american cider, crab, culinary, and heirloom apples. Grown, hand picked, pressed and fermented in the Willamette Valley, Oregon. 

About

About

Viola Orchards is located  west of Estacada.  Owners Brian and Lavina established the farm in 2016.  Hand grafting over 118 varieties of american cider, crab, culinary and heirloom apple trees.  Between 2018 and 2024 they have planted thousands of trees in the orchard.

In addition to apple trees, Viola Orchards also began planting herbs and berries to be used in their products alongside the blackberries, and Douglas Fir Tips that were already established on the property.

Sourcing additional fruit has been necessary to keep up with demand.  Viola Orchards chooses to source fruits locally in Oregon from independent farmers.  

In 2019 the cidery was established on the farm, in Estacada, OR, in the Viola Valley.  As well as picking apples in their orchard, Brian and Lavina hand pick similar varieties from an orchard 30 miles away in the Willamette Valley.  

Once picked and pressed, Viola Orchards begins the cider making by fermenting the juice via a cultured yeast process. Once fermentation is complete the cider is packaged and ready for enjoyment.

In 2024, Viola Orchards established a farm stand on the corner of S Redland Rd and S Mattoon Rd.  This farm stand is seasonally open selling fresh pressed, unpasteurized cider from the orchard.  The 2025 farmstand season will bring new products, including grafted trees ready to plant, fresh pressed juice, and preserves from the farm.

Our Story

Our Story

Owners Brian and Lavina grew up on opposite ends of the country,but their childhoods shared one parallel: apple orchards; Brian in the robust orchards of Western New York and Lavina on her family’s 80 acres in Douglas County, Oregon. 

In the mid 2000’s their paths crossed in Portland, Oregon initiating a love affair with cider neither of them could have imagined. Moving into their first home together, instead of a dining room table in the kitchen they found themselves with only room for 9 fermenters. That particular batch of cider was juice they purchased from their friend’s farm stand in Milwaukie, Oregon, which came from the orchard they currently pick their cider apples from. Those 9 fermenters were enjoyed by all at backyard BBQs, birthdays, campfires, and Tuesday nights.

In the coming years, they would be very resourceful in their picking endeavors. Getting a variety of juice from Lavina’s family farm, knocking on doors to pick apple trees in yards, to purchasing a majority of their juice from the Milwaukie farm stand. Many of their pressings were weekend long events; full days of picking, and full days of pressing. The one constant was the clear, dry, fruit forward cider they produced.

When it came time to purchase their own home Lavina and Brian decided to take their dream to the next level by purchasing acreage in the valley of Estacada, Oregon in what once was the town of Viola. There they began grafting, planting and tending to their own orchard for cider making. While they wait for their orchard to mature they are personally picking apples from an orchard 30 miles away in the Willamette Valley that was also grafted and planted by an orchardist just like Lavina and Brian. Their love of cider is what has created Viola Orchards.

Find Our Ciders

Find Our Ciders

Oregon City Year Round Farmers Market 

1/18, 2/1, 2/15, 3/1, 3/15, 3/29, 4/12, 4/26  info here

Milwaukie Farmers Market

2025 season TBD 

Bottles available online now. Store

Bottles 

    • Harvest Market, Estacada OR 
    • Bent Shovel Brewing, Estacada OR 
    • McIver Outpost, Estacada OR 
    • Redland Station, Oregon City OR
    • Watershed Cafe & Bistro, Oregon City OR
    • Belmont Station, Portland OR 
    • PDX Bottle Shop, Portland OR 
    • Array Bottle Shop, Portland OR 
    • Beer Bunker, Portland OR 
    • Henry’s Market, Portland OR  
    • Milwaukie Pizza Company, Milwaukie OR 
    • Beer Store Milwaukie, Milwaukie OR
    • Milwaukie Cafe and Bottle Shop, Milwaukie OR
    • The Brew, Gladstone OR

Permanent Tap Handles 

    • Bent Shovel Pub, Estacada OR
    • Clackamas River Taphouse, Estacada OR
    • Moreland Ale House, Portland OR 
    • Eagle Creek Saloon, Eagle Creek OR 
    • The Record Pub, Portland OR 
    • Covert Cafe, Portland OR
    • Guardian Games, Portland OR
    • Milwaukie Pizza Company, Milwakie OR
    • The Dullahan Irish Pub, Lake Oswego OR
    • Watershed Cafe & Bistro, Oregon City OR

Rotating Tap Handles

    • Arch Bridge Tap House, Oregon City OR
    • The Office, Milwaukie OR
    • Beer Store Milwaukie, Milwaukie OR
    • Ginos Restaurant, Sellwood OR
    • PDX Bottle Shop, Portland OR
    • Array, Portland OR
    • Benbears Beer, Portland OR
    • Proper Pint Woodstock, Portland OR
    • Beer Bunker, Portland OR
    • Tabor Tavern, Portland OR
    • Bare Bones, Portland OR
    • Conscious Sedation Beer, Portland OR
    • Duke’s Public House, Lake Oswego OR