Domaine Olga Raffault has been one of Chinon's reference points for decades, and the story behind the name is worth knowing. Pierre Raffault died suddenly in 1947, leaving Olga with two small children and an estate to run. It was Ernest Zenninger, a former German soldier who had found refuge with the Raffaults at the end of the war, who vowed to see the family through. He became the estate's winemaker and mentored Olga's son Jean, and together they built the domaine into a Loire Valley institution. 

Today the estate is run by Olga's granddaughter Sylvie Raffault alongside her husband Eric de la Vigerie and their son Arnaud, farming 25 hectares of certified organic vines. The minimalist approach in the vineyard extends to the cellar: fruit is destemmed with whole berries going uncrushed into tank, fermented with native yeasts, with winemaking that has remained traditional through the generations, allowing the expression of Raffault's sites to shine through.