SPRITZ got its start in the late 1700s and early 1800s when Austrian soldiers based in Northern Italy, accustomed to drinking beer, used water to stretch the wines of Veneto, which were too alcoholic for them.
The name spritz, in fact, comes from the German word spritzen, which means to splash.
White wine and carbonated water was the first spritz, made Austro-Hungarian style.
The spritz that won over Italian palates was born in the 1920s with the idea of tinting the cocktail with a drop of bitters.
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