Mandy Hernandez and daughter Grace stay busy keeping customers happy in the Wine Tasting Room and definitely enjoy meeting people from the Orange area and beyond. Van Wade/Orange Leader
FREE STATE CELLARS
A GREAT PLACE TO KICK BACK TO SIP WITH A GREAT VIEW
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By Van Wade If Orange County folks want to kick back and relax in a calm atmosphere and sip a little wine then Free State Cellars is a very warm and comforting place to go. Free State Cellars is open where the former Piney Woods Winery was on Tejas Drive, just off of Interstate 10 in Orange. The Swope family, of Orange, is running Free State Cellars so people can have a wonderful family experience to relax and enjoy some wine and amazing scenery. The winery is open on Thursdays from 1 p.m.7 p.m., Fridays from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. and on Sundays from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Their wines are sold by the bottle or the glass. Free State also offers sangrias that chills the wine into adult-like slushees. The Piney Woods Winery was cranked up in 1985 by Alfred Flies, who planted acres of vines and made wonderful fruit wines. Flies
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