Domaine Olga Raffault

Domaine Olga Raffault is a French wine estate situated in the central Loire. The majority of its portfolio is dedicated to the Cabernet Franc-based red wines from the village of Chinon.

The domaine started in the early half of the 20th Century, when recently widowed Olga Raffault achieved her first vintage with the help of a WWII German prisoner of war, Ernest Zenninger. This began a successful family winemaking business that is today managed by Sylvie Raffault and her husband, Eric de la Vigerie.

The 24-hectare (60-acre) estate consists of 23ha (57 acres) of vineyards devoted to the cultivation of Cabernet Franc for the domaine's Chinon Rouge and rosé varietal wines, with the remaining hectarage planted to Chenin Blanc for its single Chinon Blanc wine.

The vines are 30 years old on average and sit on three unique soil types that produce three distinct Chinon Rouge wines: Les Barnabés (sand-gravel), Les Peuilles (silt-clay) and Les Picasses (clay-limestone). Domaine Olga Raffault's fourth Chinon Rouge wine, La Singulière, is a select blend of Cabernet Franc grapes grown on the oldest of the domaine's clay-limestone vineyard plots.