What the bartender really thinks about your spritz
Don’t expect the fizzy summer drinks to be a downer for the people who make them.
From The Times
August 29, 2026

It has been eight years since bartenders we interviewed declared the Aperol spritz “the drink of the summer.” By now, you might expect the fizzy drinks to elicit eye-rolling among those who make them by the hundreds.

A person prepares to sip an Aperol spritz through a straw.

Lanna Apisukh for The New York Times

But think again. →

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