Schorle denotation (also as family name) and as a term to refer to the beverage-muddle. Schorle made with fruit juice is subject to the order on the regulation of fruit and soft drinks (cf. ). Wine is the basis of "„wine schorle“" or "“wine spritzer“". Preferred wine varieties are Riesling (Riesling schorle / Riesling spritzer), Blauer Portugieser, vin gris, Müller-Thurgau, Silvaner or other red wine. Depending on what the wine is mixed with, a wine schorle is called “sour” when it is prepared with carbonated water, “sweet” when prepared with carbonated lemonade, or also “sweet and sour” when made with both
Schorle often used as a derogatory term for a person in Eastern Austria. In Switzerland, a "Gespritzter" is white wine mixed with either mineral water (a "Sauergespritzter", or sour spritzer) or with lemonade (a "Süßgespritzter", or sweet spritzer). The various mixtures of (generally dry) wine and sparkling mineral water also have a long tradition and are very popular in Hungary. They are generally called "fröccs" ("spritzers") but the numerous variations (with wine and water in differing ratios) have various imaginative names in Hungarian. Derived from Austrian "Gespritzten", "Spritz" (or "Spriz", "Spriss" or "Sprisseto") is also drunk in Italy. In the former