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Wine that gave up half its dignity to keep your afternoon standing.
means A light, refreshing drink made by diluting wine—usually white—with soda water or sparkling water.
from From German 'spritzen,' meaning 'to spray' or 'to squirt,' and 'Spritzer,' a splash or spurt. The word entered English in the 20th century carrying the fizzy logic of its root: a splash of soda spraying the seriousness out of your wine. It's a cousin of 'spritz,' that satisfying little hiss of carbonation, and shares a family with the Yiddish-flavored 'spritz' you might hear in older comedy slang for a quick burst of anything.
- origin
- Named for Austrian spritzen, meaning to splash or squirt
- math
- Roughly half wine, half soda, double the deniability
- history
- Soda water arrived via 1700s industrial carbonation breakthroughs
- reputation
- Often dismissed as a drink for the cautious
- comeback
- Reborn upscale as the Aperol-fueled patio darling
aperol spritz — italian cocktail from veneto region, roughly equal parts prosecco, aperol, and soda water
wine spritzer — white wine mixed with sparkling water, popular in us during 1980s wine boom