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.
Schorle and Austria 'Gespritzter' basically refers to the same drink. According to §3 of the German "Weinbezeichnungsverordnung", which is a decree for the labelling of wine, a "G'spritzter" (also Gespritzter, Spritzer) is a drink mixed with at least 50% wine and 50% soda or mineral water at the most. The drink itself has to contain at least 4,5 % per vol. of alcohol. The name "Schorle" is unusual in Austria. Colloquially the expression "Sommerspritzer" or "Sommergespritzter" is used for a mixture with less wine and "Winterspritzer" for a mixture with more wine. There are red as well as white "Gespritzter", though