🧀🍎 Club Pick Up Day at RAW Cider Co.! 🍎🧀 Join me this Saturday from noon–5pm at RAW Cider Co. for an afternoon of handcrafted cider and thoughtfully paired cheeses.
Club members will enjoy a complimentary cheese plate curated to pair beautifully with this month’s cider selections. A few of my favorite cheeses, a few great pours, and a perfect way to spend a Saturday in wine country.
I’m looking forward to sharing pairings, talking cheese, and seeing everyone during club pick up day! 🧀✨🍐🍎
@rawcider #CiderAndCheese #CheesePairing #ClubPickupDay #OregonCider @mifroma_official@beecherscheese@helvetiacreamery@marinfrenchcheese
Look around! We live in a place full of amazing local food. We’re celebrating that and our wonderful neighbors that make it happen. Freshhhh.
Chef Daniel created an incredible menu built entirely around ingredients grown, raised, harvested, and produced right here in our valley, paired alongside RAW Cider Co. ciders and supported by an amazing network of local farms and producers.
Thank you to Rainshine Family Farm, Pablo Munoz Farms, Left Coast Fresh, Visser Endives, Lord-Cranmer Farm, Crush and Crate Northwest, and everyone else who helped bring this dinner to life.
Most importantly, thank you to everyone who joined us and supported the evening.
Rooted in the Valley is about more than dinner. It is about connecting people to local farms, celebrating seasonal food at its peak, and creating space for community to gather together around the table.
We’re already looking forward to the next one.
On Saturday May 9th, Raw Cider Co. is hosting a truly special event, “Rooted in the Valley”, A Cider & Farm Dinner, and you’re invited to join. This is a small, intentional evening built around the early bounty of the Willamette Valley and the people growing it. “This is the kind of dinner we love most, communal, relaxed, and grounded in place. Fewer ingredients, better sourcing, and a table shared with people who care about where their food and drink come from.”
I’m grateful to be providing a dessert cheese course. Enjoy five PNW cheeses paired with local accompaniments along with a really special chocolate truffle infused with Raw Cider courtesy of Puddin’ River Chocolates.
With just a few spots remaining, reach out to the team at Raw Cider to reserve your spot today.
Event Details
May 9th, 2026 at 6:00 pm
RAW Cider Co., Dayton, Oregon
(includes four-course dinner + cider pairings) @rawcider@riversedgechevre@helvetiacreamery@beecherscheese@marinfrenchcheese@cascadiacreamery@puddinriverchocolatescanby
It’s beautiful day to enjoy cider and see the blossoms in the orchard! 🥂 And the cider maker @lvidis is working the tasting room, so stop by to learn about cider or just say hi! 🌸 🍎 🌸
How it’s made: Sparkling Perry. Removing the lees the perry has aged on in bottle for the last 14 months is called disgorging. This is a final step before corking, caging and labeling. There’s 2-3 years of work behind this (more if you consider the orcharding).
🍐 Pears 🍐 are difficult on every level; growing, harvesting, pressing, fermenting. We’re learning how to fight them less by taking notes from nature. We still forage wild pears and observe them in their natural wild environments. We’ve also started to graft wild pear varieties in the orchard. WHY 🤪?! First, they express flavor profiles you’ve never had in fruit and make excellent Perry. Second, we get to name them whatever we want (fun). Third, many pears in the US are European varieties, whereas these have that background but they’ve been ‘selected by nature,’ and have been surviving perfectly well in the wild with no irrigation, no pruning, no inputs. Our wager is they’ll grow great in our orchard with careful attention and minimal intervention. Don’t fight nature, Work With Wild. #sustainable #wildfruit #perry
✨ Vendor Spotlight: RAW Cider Co. ✨
Fresh, natural, and straight from the orchard. 🍎🍏
Founded by Levi Danielson, RAW Cider Co. was created with a passion for crafting cider that reflects the land it comes from. With a focus on thoughtful orchard practices and minimal intervention, RAW Cider brings forward unique, naturally expressive flavors that go far beyond the typical grocery store pour.
If you love discovering something unexpected and refreshingly real, make sure to stop by and taste for yourself all weekend long.
📍 McMinnville Wine + Food Classic
📅 March 13–15, 2026
🏛 Evergreen Air + Space Museum
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Thanks for joining us @thewildbunchpdx this weekend! It was a pleasure to pour #RAWCider surrounded by other outstanding #wine and #cider makers! Keep an eye out for where we will be in the wild next 🍐#shoplocal #workwithwild
Fine cider is made seasonally, following the cycle of nature.
Starting in spring, buds swell and slowly open, an early sign the orchard is waking up. Following this is a bouquet of blossoms brightening up the orchard and ushering in a host of pollinators.
Summer is the season of Observation. Apples grow, trees strengthen, and the fruit begins to develop structure. No rushing. Just steady care while we let the apples mature at their own pace.
Harvest follows the same philosophy. Apples are picked when they’re ready, often in stages, each variety on its own schedule. The fruit is pressed gently, and the juice is ferments slowly, with the native yeast cultivated by good orcharding practices. No heavy-handed fixes, mostly patience.
In winter, pruning brings the cycle full circle. Branches are cut back by hand to balance the trees. What we leave behind matters as much as what we remove. The cider slowly matures in these colder months.
Some ciders rest longer to age their tannic structure. Others are released sooner to highlighting their fruit character.
Every choice is intentional. Every step is connected to the orchard, the season, and the people doing the work. 🍎🌿🥂
Stories are meant to be shared. This is a story in a bottle. 🥂
Every bottle and glass of our fine cider and perry tells a story of place and time, bursting with the unique character of a vintage shaped by the land and seasons. Built on old-world methods and meant for sharing, RAW Cider finds its place at the table, where conversation and cider flow among good food and great company.
Visit our Tasting Room to see where it all begins and bring home a story worth sharing for your next dinner party.
