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Apple spritzer

Spritzer , spritzer , spritzter is a mixture of:

  • Wine with mineral water , sour spritzers, sour spritzers , in Austria white / red spritzers or G'spritzter (pronunciation: Gschpritzter) or spritzers .
  • Wine with lemonade , sweet spritzer (“Arbeitersekt”) , or cola (“Cola-Schoppen”, “ Korea ”) in Austria cola red (regional: bonanza) or white
  • Fruit juice with mineral water , juice spritzer , fruit spritzer or fruit juice spritzer , in Austria apple juice sprinkled, orange juice sprinkled , etc.

Schorle (mostly "the" Schorle, in Baden-Württemberg "das" or "the" Schorle, in the Palatinate "the" Schorle) is especially popular as a refreshing drink in summer . The mixing ratio is around one to one, with fruit spritzers the water content is sometimes considerably higher.

Origin of the word spritzer

According to the Duden dictionary of origins , the word Schorlemorle is a name first attested to as Schurlemurle in Lower Bavaria since the 18th century for a mixed drink made from wine and mineral water. The origin of the word is uncertain; Perhaps it is a question of a language-playful education, similar to the names of beer scormorrium in Münster and Murlepuff in Strasbourg, which were already attested for the 16th century . The Schurimuri ("excited, hectic person") , attested in southern Germany since the 16th century, and the older Low German Schurrmurr ("mishmash") could be related to it.

According to Kluge , the word Schorlemorle is probably based on the dialect Southwest German schuren ("gush").

Henning Petershagen also lists other attempts at interpretation in an article in the Südwest Presse , for example a relationship to the Dutch term schorriemorrie (rabble, rabble). The digital bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse letteren traces the word back to the Persian-Turkish schurmur , which means “confusion, tumult” and has a similar sound in Albanian, Serbian, Slovenian and Russian - all the way to Spanish churriburri. This can be found in the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy as zurriburri (confusion, lower subject, rabble). Schorle was probably created like this: The oriental shurimuri penetrated into Europe in the original meaning of "mess", where it became a character designation (also a family name) and the name of the beverage mess.

Mix with wine

Germany

Wine spritzer

Wine is the basis for wine spritzer. Preferred grape varieties are above all Riesling (Riesling spritzer) , Blauer Portugieser , Weißherbst (Weißherbst spritzer) , Müller-Thurgau (Müller-Schorle) or Silvaner . Depending on your preference, these mixtures can be drunk under the name Schorle sour with carbonated mineral water , sweet with lemon fizzy or in combination with sweet and sour mineral water (sweet and sour).

In the Palatinate , the spritzer (the masculine form is common there) is often served with a mixing ratio in which the wine clearly dominates; Depending on the serving staff, especially in wine bars or at wine festivals, the glass is mostly filled with wine and only diluted with a little water. In the Palatinate, spritzer is traditionally served in a 0.5 liter glass, the Palatinate Schoppenglas , sometimes also in the form of a dub glass.

A special Palatine spritzer is called Persching ( Palatine dialect name for the peach ). Half of the Persching contains rosé wine, mostly Weißherbst vom Portugieser , and the other half contains sweet orange lemonade, so that the color of the drink is reminiscent of peach juice.

Mixtures of wine with cola are also similar to spritzers: red cola and white cola, i.e. mixtures of cola with red wine or white wine.

Splashed

In some areas of Germany, Schorle is called Spritzter , which does not always mean the same thing:

In Hessen , spritzers are a 2: 1 to 3: 1 mixture of apple wine and mineral water. In traditional apple wine taverns, it is only served in this form in ribbed apple wine glasses. Today it is often referred to as a sour spritz to distinguish it from the sweet spritz mixed with lemonade .

In Rheinhessen a spritzter or "sour spritzter" is a mixture of white wine or red wine with mineral water. There are also mixtures with cola or lemonade there.

In Bavaria this is roughly the same as in Austria:

Austria

Summer splash in Saalfelden, Austria

According to § 3 of the Wine Designation Ordinance, a G'spritzter (also Spritzter, Spritzer ) is a drink that consists of at least 50% wine and a maximum of 50% soda or mineral water. The drink itself must contain at least 4.5  % alcohol by volume. The term Schorle is not used in Austria.

Colloquially, the expressions Sommerspritzer (Sommerspritzter) are used for a mixture with less wine, usually in a ratio of 1 to 3.

There are both red and white spritzers, although in rural areas only the white one was served until the 1980s. For these red and white wine mixed drinks, no grape variety is usually given. It is practically without exception table wines. Traditionally, Veltliner or Zweigelt are used from the double-liter bottle.

Usually, the spritz is served in 0.25 liter stemmed glasses or glasses with a handle. If you order a large spritz, you will usually get 0.5 liters served in a beer glass.

Herbal lemonade ( e.g. Almdudler ) is used instead of water for a sweet spritz, other names are Almweiß, Liftler or Tiroler. A spritz with a dash of elderflower syrup is called an Kaiserspritzer or Kaiserspritzter.

In Vienna a spritzer was seldom referred to as a sprayer or spray wine . In some areas of Lower Austria it is also called a siphon . In Styria it is known as a splash when wine is mixed with soda water. If the wine is mixed with mineral water, the drink is called a mixture

In the federal state of Vorarlberg , the terms white-sweet , white-sour , red-sweet , red-sour are common. These are spritzers in 0.25-liter stemmed glasses or glasses with a handle in a ratio of around 50% white or red wine and around 50% carbonated mineral water (sour) or lemonade (sweet). The term “ Spritzter” is understood everywhere, but rarely used.

A squirted person or the squirted person is also used as a derogatory term for people in Eastern Austria .

Switzerland

In Switzerland , Spritzter is a white wine mixed with mineral water (“ Sauerspritzter ”) or lemonade (“Süßspritzter”) .

Hungary

The different mixtures of (mostly dry) wine and sparkling mineral water have a great culture and a long tradition in Hungary. They are commonly referred to as fröccs ( spritzers ), but the numerous variations (with wine and water in different proportions) have different fanciful names in the Hungarian language.

Other countries

Derived from the Austrian Spritz , people in northeast Italy drink a Spritz (or Spriz, Spriss or Sprisseto).

In the area of ​​the former Yugoslavia, the analogous names for wine with mineral water špricer and gemišt are common. The mixture of red wine with cola or lemonade is called bamboo (especially in Croatia) .

In Spain the mixture of red wine and lemonade is known under the name Tinto de verano .

In the Basque Country, people often drink kalimotxo , a mixture of red wine and cola.

In Great Britain, red or white wine spritzer has been known as a “spritzer” since the mid-1980s.

Mix with juice

Juice spritzer, also known as fruit spritzer or fruit juice spritzer, is a mixture of mineral water and fruit juice and, due to its great popularity, is now also offered in pre-filled bottles by beverage manufacturers. Normally, carbonated mineral water used. The water content can vary widely, but is typically below 50% - usually 40% to 60%. Apple juice spritzer is particularly popular ; acidic or bitter types of fruit are also particularly suitable, such as grapefruit , whose juice is often less digestible when undiluted. However, particularly sweet types of fruit are also diluted as spritzers, such as cherry juice spritzers. Fruit juice spritzer contains less energy ( physiological calorific value ) than pure fruit juices. Soda lemon , a mineral water with lemon juice , is widespread in Austria .

Apple spritzer

Apple spritzer, also apple juice spritzer or squirted apple juice (in Hesse, Bavaria and Austria; also " Obi spritzed " here), is particularly popular as a sports drink because it contains minerals on the one hand , and carbohydrates on the other , and is also almost isotonic .

The commercially available versions contain a fruit content of 55% to 60% and 5 g to 6 g of the fruit's own sugar per 100 milliliters. In addition, synthetic apple aroma is sometimes added, which can lead to an unnatural and strange taste.

A distinction must be made between spritzers and “fruit juice drinks”. The sometimes inferior quality of the latter drinks was confirmed in a report by Stiftung Warentest from April 2007, in which only one fruit juice drink was rated “satisfactory”, while the other products were rated “poor”. Stiftung Warentest complained above all about the high sugar content, the very low juice content and the smell and taste, which were strongly adulterated by the addition of aromas. So the testers u. a. Pear and banana flavors solid; one drink even smelled like “shampoo with an apple scent”.

Web links

Wiktionary: Schorle  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. The Duden . Volume 7: Günther Drosdowski (Ed.): Duden "Etymologie". The dictionary of origin of the German language. 2nd, completely revised and expanded edition. Dudenverlag, Mannheim et al. 1989, ISBN 3-411-20907-0 , keyword Schorle .
  2. ^ Friedrich Kluge : Etymological dictionary of the German language . Completely reworked by Elmar Seebold. 22nd edition. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1989, ISBN 3-11-006800-1 , keyword Schorlemorle
  3. SO EBBES from June 5 ( Memento from March 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Henning Petershagen: The west-eastern spritzer . In: Südwest Presse (Ed.): Südwest Presse . Ulm June 5, 2010.
  5. Stiftung Warentest: Apple spritzer: Not like mixed yourself. test 5/2001.
  6. Stiftung Warentest: Test “finished apple fruit juice drinks” test.de, April 26, 2007 (accessed on December 11, 2012).