SGC La Liberté
Grand vin de Bordeaux
SGC La Liberté
Pomerol 2020 · Médoc 2018
Ranked by the great soils.
See the allocationThe verdict
“It is a major evolution in the wine industry.”
Gérard Basset OBE, MS, MWWorld Champion Sommelier
“A scheme designed to kick the whole Bordeaux system where it hurts most.”
Jancis Robinson OBE, MWFinancial Times
“It is sublime.”
Michel BettaneLeading French wine critic
He tasted La Liberté Médoc 2015 beside five icons of Bordeaux and Tuscany, and ranked it first.
Launch offer · Founding members
The Allocation
Six bottles each year. Release price £175 a bottle.
instead of £1,050
Launch offer for the first 500 founding members: 40% below each release price, for life.
Begin with one bottle
Taste La Liberté at home before your first allocation.
for one bottle of the Pomerol
This first order simply secures your place among the first 500 founding members: 40% below each release price, for life. You have one month: cancel free of charge at any time before your first allocation is charged.
A one-time opportunity: it closes with the 500th founding member.
- Priority access to future SGC releases
- Decrease or cancel free of charge before any renewal
- Insured shipping
Not ready for six? Begin with one bottle of the Pomerol, £175 today: it simply secures your place. Your first allocation follows one month later, at £630 instead of £1,050. Cancel free of charge at any time before then.
Ready for six? Reserve your allocation today: six bottles for £630 instead of £1,050.
The founding-member rate stays with your membership.
The full story
Questions
Good to know
How does the allocation work?
You reserve six bottles each year at the founding-member rate: 40% below each release price, for life. The rate stays with your membership.
Can I change or cancel?
Yes. You can decrease or cancel free of charge at any time before your renewal: nothing is charged before it. If you begin with one bottle, you have one month: cancel free of charge at any time before your first allocation is charged.
Can I choose one wine only?
Yes. Choose the Pomerol, the Médoc, or the pair, three and three. Tell us before your next case is prepared to switch, and keep the same rate.
When does my first case ship?
If you begin with one bottle, it is sent now and your first allocation follows one month later. After that, your allocation arrives once a year.
The full story
The science of the soils, the two wines, the blind tasting with Michel Bettane, the tables that pour it, and the press.
How the wine is chosen
Science, not heritage
For generations, Bordeaux’s hierarchy has been defined by the château. SGC ranks the land instead. Every parcel is mapped in the laboratory across four pillars, then scored on a 20-point index.
Every parcel is rated from 0 to 20. Only soils scoring 15 or above are ever bottled for SGC La Liberté.
The two cuvées
Two soils, two wines
Pomerol 2020
Blue clay and gravel over iron-rich crasse de fer hold water and warmth, giving Merlot its velvet: ripe plum, truffle and a long mineral line, seductive young yet patient.
Ripe plum · Black cherry · Truffle · Spice · Iron minerality
- Blend
- Merlot 95%, Cabernet Franc 5%
- Alcohol
- 13.8%
- Ageing
- 18 months, new French oak
- Drinking window
- 2025 – 2040+
Médoc 2018
Gravel over clay-limestone drains fast and forces the vine to dig, concentrating the fruit into structure, graphite and blackcurrant built for decades.
Blackcurrant · Graphite · Cocoa · Floral
- Blend
- Cabernet Sauvignon 55%, Merlot 40%, Petit Verdot 5%
- Alcohol
- 14%
- Ageing
- 16 months, 40% new French oak
- Drinking window
- 2025 – 2040+
Judged in the glass
Beside five icons
Tasting with Michel Bettane, 2015 vintage: La Liberté Médoc served beside five great wines of Bordeaux and Tuscany.
- SGC La Liberté, Médoc1st
- Château Léoville Barton, Saint-Julien2nd
- Château Palmer, Margaux3rd
- Château Ducru-Beaucaillou, Saint-Julien4th
- Sassicaia, Bolgheri5th
- Château Lynch-Bages, Pauillac6th
Results as recorded at the tasting.
In the finest hands
Poured for the world’s best
Galas, private cellars, and the tables you cannot book.
What collectors say
4.6 on Vivino
Community rating across SGC cuvées.
“Amazing wine. A mystery in a blind tasting. Blew the socks off everything.”
“Exceptionally smooth and certainly one of the best vintages”
Goldman Sachs interviews Arnaud Christiaens
Why I founded SGC
“We analyse the land itself, parcel by parcel, layer by layer, and place every soil on the same twenty-point scale. The land is a patchwork, and we select only its exceptional parts.”
Do not rank the label. Rank the soil.
“Science tells us where a great wine may begin. It does not decide where the journey ends: that belongs to the glass. So we serve our wines blind, beside the great names of Bordeaux, with no reputation to influence the result.”
Arnaud Christiaens, founder, SGC Wine Estates
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Launch offer · Founding members
A one-time opportunity: it closes with the 500th founding member.
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