Aperol Spritz Refreshing Bitter Bubbly Taste Of Venice

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Aperol Spritz Refreshing Bitter Bubbly Taste Of Venice

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Austrian soldiers in 1800s Venice thought Italian wine was too strong, so they started asking bartenders to "spritz" water into it—and the Italians, being Italians, swapped still water for sparkling and eventually added bright orange Aperol, accidentally creating the most photographed cocktail of the 21st century. The drink exploded globally in the 2000s when Gruppo Campari turned it into Instagram bait, tripling sales by making everyone think they could capture la dolce vita in a glass. It's deliberately simple—three parts Prosecco, two parts Aperol, one part soda over big ice—and that's exactly why cocktail snobs hated it in the late 2010s, completely missing the point that it's engineered for slow afternoon drinking at eight percent alcohol, not to impress anyone.

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