These are the reasons for the award: “Marco Simonit is not only one of the world's leading experts in pruning. Inventor of a new method that safeguards and strengthens plants (maintaining the correct branching to ensure lymphatic flow), founder of Simonit&Sirch Vine Master Pruners, brilliant communicator who has transformed an agricultural practice into a source of dissemination, Simonit is also a careful observer of what happens in the agricultural world. With a special focus on the climate, which brought him on stage at Harvard University in Boston in 2024 to talk about the challenges of climate change. The new commitment is to promote the resilience of plants to climate variables also through pruning techniques. Thinking of vineyards increasingly at high altitude and with lower planting densities.”
“We are facing an agricultural scenario that is different from that of the past: it is necessary to use ancient practices and new technologies to limit the damage caused by the effects of climate change, a fundamental issue that is still talked about too little,” Ferraro explained during the presentation of the guide, adding that “this is why we wanted to dedicate the 2025 guide to all those winemakers who have found new ways to combat global warming, once again saving the quality and variety of Italian wine.”
The section with the story of the experience of 100 winemakers is joined by the one with the ranking of the 100 best wines , drawn up for the second consecutive year and with the introduction of new scoring criteria by Suckling. The guide also contains an appendix dedicated to the ten best Italian vineyards , for history, resilience and beauty, signed by Marco Simonit , and an intervention by Federico Rampini entitled “A look from America”, which tells how wine has become “a powerful weapon in the arsenal of Italian 'soft power' in the United States”.
