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Authentic orchard-based ciders from Oregon's Willamette Valley

OUR QUALITY

WE GROW MORE THAN 60 VARIETIES OF RARE, ANCIENT APPLES. AMERICAN. FRENCH. ENGLISH. EACH UNIQUE.

Each year we grow and select from all this amazing variety, hoping to make authentic, orchard-based, apple-only ciders.

Some apples play leading roles. Superstars. Others are supporting actors, essential but less noticeable. Alone, or in combination, apples can do things few cider drinkers imagine. Wine drinkers: time to sit up and pay attention.We seek harmony with nature and want to show off the apples’ character.

Everything we do starts in our orchard. It is situated on the eastern edge of Oregon’s Willamette valley, a stone’s throw from the Santiam River. The soil is full of rocks, clay, calcium. It gets hard in Oregon’s dry summers. Soggy and slippery in our drenched winters. Hard to manage. Unforgiving. But it produces fruit high in superlatives: aromatics, tannins, sugars. Clearly recognizable terroir.

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Claystone 750ml bottles

$22.00

Claystone captures the breadth of the apple varieties we grow with a blend of 4 varieties: Dabinett, Wickson, Marie Menard, and Santiam Cherry (an apple variety).

Bitter End 750ml bottles

$22.00

Bitter End is a unique blend of more than 15 heritage “bitter” French and English cider apples such as Somerset Redstreak, Yarlington Mill, Brown’s Apple, Bulmer’s Norman and several more, depending on the year and harvest conditions at our orchard.

Pomme Crush 750ml bottles

$22.00

Pomme Crush represents our take on French style cider (from Normandy and Brittany). It is rich, slightly tannic, and slightly sweet. Made with traditional French and European cider apple varieties like Muscadet de Dieppe, Frequin Rouge, Kermerrien, and Kingston Black.

LONG HAUL 750ml bottles

$22.00

Fermented naturally with wild yeasts native to the orchard and without temperature control. Strong notes of tropical mangoes, pineapple, and a hint of funk.

POMME CRUSH

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Pomme Crush

Best in Class Glintcap 2023

Classic Bittersweet Cider. Our version of France’s traditional, rich, tannic, and slightly sweet drink, made from our farm-grown blend of classic bittersweet apples like Muscadet de Dieppe, Bulmer’s Norman, Kingston Black, Frequin Rouge and Kermerrien. All grown at our orchard, Idyll Acres.

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