Dalmatia Part 3: Korta Katarina

Fermentation vessels for Plavac Mali

In my previous post I wrote about a family wine-producing micro-enterprise. The Bura winery produces only around 2,000 bottles each of their key wines, Bura Dingač and Mare Postup. I visited Boris Mrgdić and the Bura family in the morning. That afternoon, by way of contrast, I spent a few hours at Korta Katarina, an impressive new winery just outside Orebic town centre which produces around 80,000 bottles a year.

Korta Katarina (roughly translated as  "Katherine's garden") was the brainchild of American industrial magnate Lee Anderson. No expense has been spared in building a spacious HQ and creating what is Pelješac's, if not the whole of Dalmatia's most leading-edge and well equipped winery. Winemaker Nika Silić made the first vintage of Korta Katarina's Plavac Mali in 2006, and since then this bold venture has been making a name for itself both locally and internationally. The estate's white wine, produced from Korcula's Pošip grape, has won a st…