Meet our Sommeliers
Lesic Dimitri Palace’s LD Restaurant is proud to feature an exceptional team of sommeliers:
head sommelier Dinko Lozica - MICHELIN Sommelier Award 2025
Marko Vilović, and Lovro Petković.
Each brings a wealth of expertise and passion for fine wines, guiding guests through thoughtfully curated selections that perfectly complement the restaurant’s Mediterranean-inspired cuisine.
Their deep knowledge, personalized recommendations, and dedication to creating memorable dining experiences make every visit to LD Restaurant a true celebration of Croatia’s rich wine heritage.
WINE TASTING
With perfect wine pairings and surprising anecdotes about the history of regional wine making, this is a memorable experience for visitors to Korčula who wish to immerse themselves in local culture.
We take pride in working closely with local producers and our sommeliers are well known for their creative pairings and knowledge of wine making and local history.
Wine has been an integral part of local culture for over two thousands years. Our Wine list includes the finest wines available in Croatia and worldwide, as well as the finest champagnes and aperitifs.
Korčula is a micro location, producing two exceptional, indigenous white grape varieties: Pošip and Grk. The island also grows the distinct red grape, Plavac Mali.
Grk is a native Croatian grape variety historically grown in the sandy topsoil in Lumbarda, island of Korčula.
Thanks to the sandy soil this variety withstanded the phylloxera outbreak that devastated vineyards in France and Italy in the late 1800s and in Croatia at the start of the 1900s.
The legend goes that the wine absorbs the sea salt in the air giving it the unique crisp, fruity, and slightly briny taste.
Pošip is a well-known Croatian white wine that is made out of the white grapes of Pošip that has been grown for centuries by local families of wine producers in Smokvica and Čara vineyards on the island of Korčula.
‘Maestral’ - a wind that is very specific to this region cools down the vineyards exposed to it which keeps the air temperature lower than the others and helps grapes to ripe early.
In the past two decades production of Pošip had spread trough Dalmatia so nowadays you can find Posip vineyards over Pelješac and Biokovo slopes as well as on the islands of Hvar and Brač.
