Spritz, the Classic

There has been a lot of inadequate enthusiasm, and later an unfair backlash, towards spritz, but the truth is a spritz is not really a cocktail. Rather than being a ‘serious’ drink that relaxes you, or makes you light-headed in a sophisticated or over-joyous way, a spritz simply celebrates the end of the working day and the beginning of the aperitivo hour. It’s a promise of what the coming evening hours can bring. That’s why it is ‘watered down’ and light. Austrian soldiers stationed