What is a spritz?
Spritz: Aperitivo or wine topped with sparkling wine and soda.
- Category
- Drink family
- Taste
- Bubbly, light, bittersweet.
- Strength
- Light
- Similar to
- a highball
- Also called
- spritzer
The story
In the 1800s, Austrian soldiers in the Veneto found the local wine too strong and asked for a spray of water, a spritzen. Bitter aperitivi joined in the 1900s.