In 2002, Dan Smith, a fourth generation descendant of Daniel and Catherine White, along with his wife Tina, returned to the ancestral farm. For thirty years the land had called and we could no longer stay away. Cypress Bend Vineyards officially opened its doors in late June of 2005. After four years of cultivating thirty acres of muscadine variety grapes, Dan and Tina Smith decided to share their passion for these grapes with the public.