Get Your Swagger On
Some places have history. This one has legends. Straddling the Texas-Louisiana border, the Free State of Sabine was once a haven for outlaws, the birthplace of Texas independence, and a Devil’s Playground unlike any other. Free State Cellars pours that outlaw heritage into every bottle. Texas swagger, Cajun soul, extraordinary wine.
Uncork Something Different
Bold, Playful, and Proudly Texan
We don’t try to be Napa and that’s exactly the point. Our wines are rooted in this land, this culture, and this corner of the world where Texas swagger meets Louisiana soul.
The Heirloom Collection celebrates muscadine, the South’s native vine, in expressions ranging from a bold port-style red layered with dark fruit to lighter pours that were made for fried shrimp and Gulf Coast seafood. Texas Select ventures statewide with our Tempranillo, Viognier, Roussanne, Picpoul Blanc, and more varietals that thrive here in the remarkable Texas wine country. Our Country Fruit Wines are a love letter to Southern tradition: peach, blueberry, blackberry, strawberry, each one pure Southern joy in a glass.
Our Corner of Texas
Where the bayou meets the bottle
Turn off the interstate in Orange, follow Tejas Parkway, and within moments you’ve arrived at the edge of things with beautiful cypress trees, bayou stillness, and acres of muscadine vines stretching to the water’s edge. Then, you hear the laughter from the patio and remember where you are.
Free State Cellars is a working vineyard and winery, producing small-batch artisanal wines from vine to bottle at The Cellars. Tastings are held in the Sunday House, a mid-century modern retreat overlooking the vineyard, with patios and decks spilling out into the vineyard and the bayou beyond.
The outlaw spirit is very much alive here in the wines that look to Texas and Louisiana for inspiration rather than Napa, the frozen sangrias that come by the gallon, and afternoons that have a way of lasting longer than planned. Equal parts Texan, Cajun, and something entirely its own.
At the Winery This Month
Chart your course
Pick Your Poison
The best way to explore everything Free State Cellars has to offer is to chart your own course.
Our six-wine self-guided flight puts you in charge. Choose any six pours from our full menu, mix and match across the Heirloom Collection, Texas Select wines, and Southern fruit wines and discover what surprises you. Go bold to delicate, dry to sweet, or throw out the rulebook entirely. No wrong answers, just six sips and a bayou view to enjoy them by.
Can’t decide on just wine? Our frozen sangria flights let you sample your way through our rotating seasonal flavors.
Check our calendar for live music and special events!
Uncorked
By the Glass. By the Bottle. By the Bayou.
Found your favorite on the flight? Pull up a chair and stay a while.
Every wine on our menu is available by the glass, and bottles are ready to go for those who want to settle in or take a taste of the Free State home.
Not in a wine mood? Our frozen sangrias, all made in-house from winery-exclusive wines and rotating seasonal flavors, are cold enough to survive a Texas afternoon. Specialty spritzers round out the menu for something a little lighter and bubblier.
Check our calendar for live music and special events!
The August Harvest
don’t miss this
Every August, Free State Cellars opens the farm for our two most anticipated weekends of the year for our Community Harvests; one for our white muscadines, one for the red. Our Community Harvest events bring together yoga at sunrise among the muscadine rows, hands-on grape picking, a harvest breakfast, live music, and the barefoot grape stomp that people come back for year after year. Once you’ve done it, you’ll understand why.
You’ll walk the rows, feel the weight of the fruit, and learn how much love, labor, and patience goes into every bottle.
After the harvest, Free State opens at 1:00 pm with live music and tastings for those who want to stretch the day. Come for the stomp, stay for the festival, leave with a genuine appreciation for what goes into every glass of Free State wine.
Dates are posted on our website and Facebook. These events draw visitors from across the region, so mark your calendar early.
The Smugglers Union
Uncork your own legend
The Smugglers Union has been operating in the shadows of the Free State for years, and membership has its privileges.
Join our wine club and get curated shipments of Free State wines delivered to your door, members-only parties, discount pricing, early access to new releases, and first dibs on our most coveted events.
The outlaw tradition of the Free State lives on. You’re just on the right side of it now.