Name: Hugo Spritz
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Prosecco; 20 ml Elderflower liqueur; 12.5 ml Soda (club soda) water

Hugo Spritz
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Photographed in an UB Verdot Old Fashioned 12.6oz

Ingredients:
2 oz	Fiol Extra Dry Prosecco
²⁄₃ oz	Elderflower liqueur
0.42 oz	Thomas Henry Soda Water

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill an Old-fashioned glass.
Prepare garnish of mint leaf & lime wedge.
POUR ingredients into ice-filled glass.
Briefly STIR.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Prosecco sparkling wine - Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

This recipe is light on elderflower liqueur to make a relatively dry drink. Those after a sweeter version may prefer to follow the standard 3:2:1 Spritz formula with 45ml prosecco, 30ml elderflower and 12.5ml soda.

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History:

Pronounced 'Ugo', this spritz-style cocktail was created in 2005 by "Roland 'Ak' Gruber" at his San Zeno wine and cocktail bar in his hometown of South Tyrol in northern Italy. Prior to returning home to open his own bar, Ak had bartended in Switzerland and, after he was forced to close his own bar, returned there. It was during his second stint of bartending in Switzerland that his Hugo Spritz became a well-known contemporary classic.

Ak originally named his cocktail "Otto" but quickly renamed this riff on a classic Spritz Veneziano. Originally made with lemon balm syrup, at some point, what is now a Hugo changed to being made with more readily available elderflower syrup and then elderflower liqueur.

Alcohol content:

0.6 standard drinks
9.02% alc./vol. (9.02° proof)
8.3 grams of pure alcohol

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Isaac Marriott

8 hours ago

Isn't this often made with the addition of Gin as well? Makes it a little more dry and boozy.

Peter McCarthy

10th August 2024 at 20:38

On the sweet side, but the floral notes help cut it a bit. Very nice.

Yorey C

22nd November 2024 at 20:19

i concur, i'd use a bit less elderflower liqueur. otherwise this is a great jazz-up for some mediocre kirkland champagne. i love it.

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Mark

8th July 2024 at 01:38

Crowd pleaser, mild and perfect for a hot sunny afternoon.

Monkey Beng

30th November 2023 at 12:29

Also named St-Germain Spritz.
From Stgermain.fr website the ratio is :
40 ml St-Germain
60 ml Prosecco or Champagne
60 ml soda water

Lucas Gai

8th December 2024 at 00:52

Not quite
The signature Spritz uses more elderflower liquor and lemon peel instead of mint. Result is actually different.

Egg McKenzie

19th June 2023 at 20:09

hugo

Samantha Pietrus

30th December 2022 at 02:59

Light and refreshing! I substituted a slice of cucumber for the lime

Vincent Dufour

26th September 2021 at 06:44

This drink is also getting very famous in France and Belgium. Sweet, can be "switched", I mean you can use, prosecco, champagne; sparkling wine.... Elderflower syrup to make it less alcoholic, I am pretty sure you can make it virgin with alcohol free champagne. For the taste; not sure it would be worth it

JACQUELINE KIRK

7th April 2021 at 17:37

This is indeed popular all over Switzerland, when I arrived here in 2012 I had no idea. Have had a lot of them since then, nice in the few months of warm weather we have here on a nice terrace :P We just had one here in Ticino, though the terrace is still freezing haha.

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