Matteo Finezzo from Verona is the best Italian vine pruner. He is the winner of the 2nd Italian Pruning Festival, the contest created and organised by Simonit&Sirch Vine Master Pruners: ore than 100 competitors competed at Agricola San Felice di Castelnuovo Berardenga in Chianti Classico. The best team was the Largoni Boys, i.e. Marco Cecchetto, Nikolas Marson and Marco Gregoris from the Giorgio Cecchetto winery.

Tuscany’s Chianti Classico will host the Pruning Festival 2024, conceived and organised by Simonit&Sirch. The appointment is on 16 March 2024 in San Felice, Castelnuovo Berardenga (SI), with the Pruning Contest. The Festival will be preceded on 15th March by the Technical Conference “Vine and Water: Sustainable Design”

Since 2019 we have been developing an AI device with the aim of providing pruners with a tool that can help them work better and ensure pruning quality