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For me
Vineyards are also
Gorgeous views
God thoughts
Great moments
Let's share it ! 

What tailoring grapevines means for me

Letting the best of every individual grapevine express itself, because I believe that even plants live adventures, their way, and tasting that distillate makes me feel good !

Values

Plants offer freely their fruits, let's offer them the best pruning practices possible in return.

Mission

I fell in love with the lifestyle of growing plants. I want to share this passion with vineyards by contributing to improve their situation.

Vision

Since improvement is an iterative process, I look forward to work with wineries year round, in different world regions, to offer compounded knowledge in my services.

My Pruning Highlights 

* Jn 2026

"You can't know for sure what you don't measure."

On my pruning journey, analyzing my stats according to their contextual situation, upgraded my comprehension of the vines' balance. 

I wish it to be the same for you !

28k
Pruned grapevines

830
Cumulative pruning hours 

115
Vines/hour
(Best ratio)

My Grapevine Experiences

How did I become a gravevine pruning geek ?


Growing plants regroups so many facets, so many we can't control, thus nailing down those we can makes a difference. Since all of the facets are closely interrelated, knowing the whole cycle plays an important part in achieving a season conscentiously.

Grapevine Pruning

  • Vineyard Technician 2024-26

    Sainte-Catherine Vineyard - Ste-Catherine-de-Hatley, Qc, CA
    Provided guidance to new vineyard owner in the restructuring of 4600 old and overgrown vines, while maintaining consistent yields and cutting the pruning time by 11.5% and 32,5% for two different varietals.

  • Vineyard Pruner 2024

    Saint-Gabriel Vineyard - St-Gabriel-de-Brandon, Qc, CA
    Pruned 5 000 vines in 25 days. 
    They were not shoot thined chandelier vines of one foot tall.

  • Vineyard Pruner 2023

    Noble Ridge Vineyards & Winery - Okanagan Falls, B.C., CA
    Pruned around 10 000 vines in 20 days. 
    They were shoot thined bilateral spur cordon vines of 3 feet tall.

Shoot Thinning & Plant Vigor Balance

  • Vineyard Contractor 2026

    Domaine Bergeville Vineyard - North Hatley, Qc, CA
    Learned the intricacies of the energetic potential of 4 year grapevines guided in Simonit & Sirch bilateral Poussard recane structure for cold climate sparkling wines.

  • Agri-Business Associate Degree
    National Organic Agriculture Institute - Victoriaville, Qc, CA         2016-21

    I graduated in the Fruit Production Specialization, where we learned for a wide variety of trees and bushes, on which age of wood they produce their fruits. 

    On my second intership, with my team we were responsible of 3 fruit productions at the school orchard, which included grapevines.

    The plant vegetative/productive ratio balance was a notion we covered right from the start in our general horticulture 45h course.


My Holistic Agri-Business Comprehension

Comes from these major experiences

My Business Facet

  • A Business Plan 2021

    Two semesters to write every aspect of it. Starting from the PESTEL analysis, then thinking through the production and marketing plans, and budgeting on 5 year predictions.

  • A Self Employed Lifestyle 2021-today

    Being a seasonal traveler taught me to constantly be curious, to see unexpected turns as adventures and to go out of my confort zone while feeling serene in it.

  • Sainte-Catherine 
    Vineyard & Winery         2024-2026

    With the vineyard manager, we started cocreating their wines and that made me feel where I am supposed to be.

My Agronomic Facet

  • Human Adapt the Environment 2015-2026

    From outdoor farming to indoor greenhouses, from horticulture flower-beds to various fruit orchards, I have realized that the major common issue is that we try to grow plants where they don't naturally belong.

  • Plants Adapt 
    to the Environment    2022-2025

    To follow up on the previous thought, I see that modern humans have a tendency to adapt the environnement to the plant, when doing the opposite would drastically reduce the friction.

  • Geology, Climate & Chemistry 2019-2026

    Since 2019, I took chemistry courses and I am self learning global climate basics to upgrade my view point of the big forces at stake in the growing process of each site.

2020

R&D Mushroom 
Growing Project 

A group of two collegues 
and I wanted to experiment 
and compare 3 different growth 
methods for the oyster mushroom.

My Agriculture Journey 
Started in BC


2015 - I discovered agriculture with cherries, in BC.

2016 - I went to this organic agriculture institut, in QC.

2019 - I did an interneship at the CETAB+ R&D centre.

2021 - After I graduated, I went travelling to  discover and understand multiple agri-business models from CSA veggie farms, mushroom picking, tree planting, various types of orchards, seed productions and many more.

Since my associate degree I realized how hard it was to implement respectfull environmental practices AND still be sustainably profitable.

Until this day, I am on the quest to co-develop profitable business models in this line of thought.

Same for 🍷🍇, 
it all Started in BC


I learned pruning in school with tomatoes where the balance between the amount of fruits and leaves would need to equate a certain ratio. Just to find out later that it was the same for pretty much every plant. 

I started pruning perennials with blueberry bushes in Québec and it hooked me. The next spring, in 2023, I pruned grapevines for the first time, in Okanagan Falls. After three gapevine pruning seasons I realized how geek I had become about this discipline.

Now I see myself pruning and shoot thinning in every part of the world year around. Starting in BC, QC, Australia, then back to QC and someday in Europe aswell.


The team I started picking grapes with, in Oliver & Osoyoos, in 2022.

Oh yeah, by the way... I'm a travel lover !

 I'm opened to win-win deal suggestions 
concerning accomodations and transport availability.