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SPRITZ is about the drink everyone drinks and almost no one knows anything about.
Spritz originated in Veneto in the 19th century, when Austrian soldiers found the local wine too strong and diluted it with water. The word comes from the German spritzen, meaning to spray or splash. From there to an orange aperitif on every pavement café in Europe took roughly a hundred and fifty years, with almost the entire journey happening in the last ten.
The book explains what a spritz actually is. The basic formula is three parts sparkling wine, two parts bitter and a splash of water, but it is the variations that make the subject interesting. Select is the original Venetian bitter and tastes completely different from Aperol, which comes from Padua and became the one that conquered the world. Then there are Campari, the artichoke-based Cynar, China Martini and a range of regional variations that have rarely left their home province.
Just as much space is given to the ritual. Aperitivo is not a drink but a time of day, and it is inseparable from whatever is placed beside the glass.
Sture Bjarnelind wrote the book in Swedish and it was published in 2022.
For anyone who has ordered a hundred spritzes without wondering why they are orange, this is the book that explains it.
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 176
Publisher: Scampi Förlag
ISBN: 9789197365574
Language: Swedish
First published: 2022
