Six unique spritzes to sip in the sunshine

The pre-mix spritz is fizzing in popularity this season. Here are six to slink in your glass while the weather’s warm.

The pre-mix spritz is fizzing in popularity this season. Here are six to slink in your glass.

An adult version of Passion-Pop.

Brown Brothers Passionfruit, Lime and Vanilla: $22

Dirty passionfruit and lemon rind nose. Looks like sparkling wine rather than a pre-mix spritz, with a prominent lolly-like passionfruit taste. Sweet, with minuscule pincushion beads adding texture to the palate and preventing a full-blown sugarcoma.

Liquorland, First Choice, Vintage Cellars

You’ll be peachy keen for this drop over summer.

Zonzo Estate Bellini di Cristina “Bellina”: $25

Pink lemonade in colour, she’s fizzing with ripe peaches and that sweet smell of springtime freedom. Tastes of syrupy peaches that don’t slip into a sickly, sugar-high. Has the right tingle of lemon, prosecco with a pinching, needle-like bead that keeps the fun times fizzing on.

Food Works Ivanhoe, BWS

Your spring garden party essential.

Chandon Garden Spritz: $33

The love child of Aperol spritz and your fave sparkling wine. Ginormous soapy bubbles eventually dissipate to reveal a gorgeous midsummer sunset hue. Smells and tastes of orange sherbet, with a nip of palate shifting tonic, flowery aromats all to the back beat of a well-engineered sparkling wine. Add ice, a rosemary throng and welcome the fizzy fun begin.

Liquorland

Tangy and fruity — just how we like it.

Debortoli Limoncello Spritz: $24

Lemon sorbet and limoncello aromas lead into an undeniably powerful citrus-forward palate, finishing with slight faux lemon tang. A softened bead makes this a springtime quasher. Add soda water to soften the fizzy blow. One for the limoncello lovers.

Dan Muprhy’s

Like a Harry Styles song. In a bottle.

Innocent Bystander Watermelon Spritz: $25

Tastes like strawberries on a summer evening, and it sounds just like a song. Expect plenty of watermelon, no sugar-high here, Mr Styles. This Innocent Bystander baby splashes with all the bright and juicy flavours and aromas of our favourite summer fruit, kissed with a hint of sweetness and countering minerality. Makes for dangerously easy spring sipping.

First Choice, Liquorland, IGA Liquor, Bottlemart

Not for everyone, but will teleport you to Europe in one sip!

Zonzo Estate Pistachio Spritz “Cicchio”: $28

Herbaceous like an Italian garden at dusk, with confected notes of biscotti. Tiny, almost non-existent beads pulse in the glass, with an initial medicinal, white icing, pistachio paste undertone and pops of stone fruit. A demure, adult drink, that could easily fallen into artificial flavour territory. Not for everyone, but takes you to the Amalfi Coast in a tick.

Dan Murphy’s