Simonit & Sirch's Guyot Methodology by Marco Simonit

Simonit & Sirch's Guyot Methodology is a pruning manual for cane-pruned vines by Marco Simonit.

Pruning was, for a long time, the part of viticulture nobody wrote books about. Published in Italian in 2014 and now available in English, this one changed that by treating every cut as a wound and asking what happens inside the plant afterwards — the answer being the trunk diseases that quietly shorten a vineyard's life. What follows is a method built around the vine's own architecture and sap flow, taking a plant through establishment, annual pruning and maturity, and dealing with the restructuring of vines already damaged by earlier work.

Essential for anyone responsible for a vineyard's long-term health, and clear enough for a grower with a small block who wants to prune properly. It also interests drinkers curious about why old-vine sites survive in some places and disappear in others.