Spritzer In some places it is said that wine spritzers make poets sing and nations come together. The word comes from the German "spritzen" "spatter, squirt, spray, sprinkle", i.e. adding water and thus diluting the wine so that it can be consumed in larger, thirst-quenching amounts. Alcoholic spritzers are increasingly available ready-mixed in cans; their relatively low alcohol and calorific content means they are often marketed at women. In Hesse, "gespritzt" usually refers to a mixture of soda water or lemonade and "Apfelwein" (in Central Hessian dialect, "Ebblwoi"), an alcoholic drink from fermented apple juice somewhat similar to dry hard cider.
Gone with the Wine wine region of Penedes. Jaakko visits San Sebastian and Rioja in Northern Spain. Jaakko gets to know the tapas bars of San Sebastian and the wines of Rioja. There is a book based on the series in Finnish, written by Master of Wine Tuomas Meriluoto, Jaakko Saariluoma and Mikko Takala. The book is published by Teos Publishing. Gone with the Wine "Gone With the Wine" is a comedial lifestyle series produced by Vertigo Production in 2006. TV host, stand-up comedian and actor Jaakko Saariluoma visits some of the most famous wine regions and wine producers in France, Italy and Spain.