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 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