Elegant. Enjoyable. Exclusive.

The best things in life are unique experiences.

Leopard Frog handcrafts couture wines that deliver unusual sensations rarely found in the wine world today.
With chocolates and cigars to complement our highly allocated wines, Leopard Frog's offerings are sure to enrich all your senses in the most pleasurable ways.

Our Wines

Leopard Frog's wines are unique in the world.

Leopard Frog handcrafts a petite portfolio of award-winning couture Cape wines in limited quantity for limited release.

Leopard Frog combines a select handful of premium varietals grown on family-owned farms in the heart of the historic wine capital of Stellenbosch to create unique and unusual wines that offer a truly enjoyable and exclusive lifestyle experience pleasing to the mind, body and soul.

Our Chocolates

Wine and chocolates go well together.

Leopard Frog handcrafts a petite portfolio of couture chocolates to complement its petite portfolio of couture wines.

Our unique chocolate offerings combine different types of chocolate sourced from Chocolaterie Bernard Callebaut in Belgium with different types of spices sourced from farmers in Africa to deliver a range of distinct chocolate sensations that complement the distinct sensations of different Leopard Frog wines.

Our Cigars

Wine and cigars go well together.

Leopard Frog handcrafts a petite portfolio of super premium couture Cuban-heritage cigars to complement its petite portfolio of couture wines.

Our cigars combine proprietary blends of aged long filler tobacco with unusual wrapper and binder tobacco to deliver a range of distinct cigar sensations that complement the distinct sensations of different Leopard Frog wines. Cigars are offered in three different sizes (Robusto, Torpedo and Churchill) to suit every mood or occasion.

Leopard Frog is the vision of winemaker and proprietor David John Bate, a 4th generation Canadian and the 13th recorded generation of the Bate family of English and Swiss descent to work the lands of Europe, North America, Australia and Africa.

David's craftsmanship combines his Old World heritage and New World upbringing through offerings that deliver immediately gratifying experiences that touch the mind, body and soul in different ways but promise a more complex relationship with time.

Welcome to the web world of Leopard Frog Vineyards.
We hope you enjoy your visit.