Simonit & Sirch USA LLC

Simonit & Sirch was founded in 1998 by the Italians Marco Simonit and Pierpaolo Sirch, as an international consulting and training company specializing in Vine Pruning. We are known as “Vine Master Pruners” and our consulting is required by the most prestigious worldwide wineries. Our mission, is to increase the longevity of individual vines to an age greater than 100 years through tutoring and training courses.

Our headquarters is located in Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy, with branches in Bordeaux, France; the Napa Valley, United States; and South Africa. The company provides its services to 150 companies, and works in 15 countries in the most important worldwide wine regions.

In January 2021, we opened the Vine Master Pruners Academy, the world’s first digital platform dedicated to vine pruning training. The training project includes online training courses alongside practice in the vineyard. We have developed a pruning method, that we transfer to pruners with a precise and rigorous path of mentoring, with the aim of enhancing the know-how in the vineyard.

Marco Simonit has published two Vine Pruning Manuals, dedicated to Spurred Cordon and Guyot. The French version “Guide pratique de la taille Guyot – Prévenir les maladies du bois”, in 2018 won the OIV 2018 International Award in the Viticulture section.