A Spritz For Every Season

January / February, 2016

WHY YOU SHOULD EMBRACE EFFERVESCENT COCKTAILS ALL YEAR ROUND D on't get it twisted: A spritz is not the 1980s blush-wine summer spritzer that might im- mediately come to mind. As Talia Baiocchi and Leslie Pari- seau write in their new book, Spritz: Italy's Most Iconic Aperitivo Cock- tail, "The modern spritz has its roots in Hapsburg-occupied northern Italy in the 19th century, when Austrian soldiers introduced the practice of adding a spritz (spray) of water to the region's wines in an eff...