Viola Orchards

Viola Orchards is an orchard-based farm and cidery in the Viola Valley west of Estacada, Oregon, in the Willamette Valley. Owners Brian and Lavina, who grew up around apple orchards in Western New York and Douglas County, Oregon, met in Portland in the mid-2000s and began making dry, fruit-forward cider at home before purchasing acreage in the former town of Viola in 2016. They established the cidery on the farm in 2019. The orchard is built around more than 118 hand-grafted varieties of American cider, crab, culinary, and heirloom apples, with thousands of trees planted between 2018 and 2024. Brian and Lavina hand-pick fruit from their own orchard and from a second orchard 30 miles away in the Willamette Valley, pressing the apples and fermenting the juice with cultured yeast. They also grow herbs and berries and use blackberries and Douglas fir tips already on the property, supplementing with fruit sourced from independent Oregon farmers. In 2024 they opened a seasonal farm stand at the corner of S Redland Rd and S Mattoon Rd selling fresh-pressed, unpasteurized cider, grafted trees, juice, and preserves.

Written by Ava from public sources. Not written or reviewed by the winery.