Spritz (cocktail)
| IBA official cocktail | |
|---|---|
An Aperol spritz | |
| Type | Wine cocktail |
| Base spirit | |
| Served | On the rocks: poured over ice |
| Standard garnish | Slice of Orange |
| Standard drinkware | Wine glass (white) |
| IBA specified ingredients† | |
| Preparation | Build all ingredients into a wine glass filled with ice. Stir gently. |
| † Spritz recipe at International Bartenders Association | |
A spritz is an Italian wine-based cocktail, commonly served as an apéritif across Italy. It consists of Prosecco, a mixer (usually soda water), and a flavouring ingredient, which can be a bitter liqueur, a bitter apéritif, an amaro or a syrup. The original spritz veneziano (Italian: [ˈsprits venetˈtsjaːno]) uses the bitter apéritif Select as its flavouring ingredient and was created in Venice in 1920. Popular variants are Aperol spritz and Campari spritz, which use respectively Aperol and Campari as flavouring ingredients.
Since 2011, spritz is an IBA official cocktail, initially listed as "spritz veneziano" then simply as "spritz". The spritz became widely popular outside of Italy in the 2010s and Aperol spritz was ranked as the world's ninth bestselling cocktail in 2019 by the website Drinks International.
National Spritz Day is celebrated annually on the 1st August.