A symbol of ’70s and ’80s suburban culture, wine spritzers have a rich history. As Talia Baiocchi and Leslie Pariseau note in their 2016 book, Spritz, some believe the spritzer started as a way for beer-loving Austro-Hungarian soldiers based in the northeast of Italy to dilute the region’s wine with a “spritz” of still water, a term derived from the German spritzen, meaning “to spray.”
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