Team Biography
Despite what myth would suggest, Olga didn’t make the wines! This was initially the job of her husband, Pierre Raffault, who never counted his efforts to grow the domaine as a business until 1947, the year of his sudden death, and cruelly in one of the finest vintages of the century.
Olga, then a mother of two young children yet conscious of her duty, managed to complete this exceptional vintage with the help of Ernest Zeinninger, a German prisoner in the service of the estate at the end of the war.
Ernest soon forged a deep friendship with his new "protectors", with whom he also discovered a new vocation: to devote his life to the vine and the wine, and to support Olga and her two children, a promise he had made during the last moments of Pierre’s life.
Today, Olga's granddaughter, Sylvie Raffault, with her husband Eric de la Vigerie and their son Arnaud, intend to maintain the good recipes of the past: a true family heritage, by combining modernity and tradition with efficiency of an operation always attentive to the requirements of a national and international clientele.
The wines of Domaine Olga Raffault are marked by all these exchanges between generations, giving them a special soul, the fruit of wisdom and passion.
