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.
Wine accessory amount of wine from a cask, carboy, or other fermentation device for testing. Home winemakers may also use a wine thief in connection with a length of tubing to siphon wine from one container to the other (a process called "racking") or to transfer the wine to bottles. A tastevin is a small, very shallow silver cup or saucer traditionally used by winemakers and sommeliers when judging the maturity and taste of a wine. The saucer-like cups were originally created by Burgundian winemakers to enable them to judge the clarity and color of wine that was stored in dim, candle-lit