Aperol spritz

plural Aperol spritzes

1. A variant of the spritz cocktail using Aperol as bitters.

   We keep good boundaries, except for one Monday last January when I took him out to celebrate his new job. After a few too many Aperol spritzes, we tripped home.

   2023 February 3, Alessandra Ranelli, “Two Kisses We Never Talked About”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

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   For me, a well-made spritz is an ideal opener to the night. The best ones are more nuanced than the Aperol spritz, but no more complicated. If your finished drink tastes like a children’s vitamin, it’s wrong, and it’s a hangover biding its time.

   2019 May 9, Rebekah Peppler, “The Aperol Spritz Is Not a Good Drink”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

   Everything in both Keenan’s and Kerrigan’s accounts was calibrated to be just the right level of accessible yet enviable: fast fashion and white sneakers, Solidcore workouts and Aperol spritzes, all set against a picture-perfect backdrop of New York City, recognizable from everyone’s favorite middlebrow television shows.

   2025 May 5, Brock Colyar, “It Must Be Nice to Be a West Village Girl”, in New York, archived from the original on 19 May 2025