A Start-Up Tries to Give Wine Spritzers a New Image and a Second Wind
A Start-Up Tries to Give Wine Spritzers a New Image and a Second Wind
Mar 27, 2013 6(NYTimes) - During the seven years she did product development and design for both Diesel in Santa Barbara, Calif., and Burton Snowboards in Burlington, Vt., Jayla Siciliano attended a lot of work-related parties and dinners and did plenty of social drinking. The problem was that she also had to get up the next morning and work, so during social events she started pouring sparkling water into her wine. “It was perfect,” she said. “I could sip that all night and I would wake up feeling fine.”
What she had concocted was a wine spritzer, the stuff women drank at summer barbecues in the 1970s and ’80s. The spritzer always had a “girlie” reputation, solidified with the advent of wine coolers in the ’80s, a bottled, sweetened version of the spritzer. The popularity of both spritzers and coolers faded in the ’90s, but in the last year or so the spritzer has been making a comeback. (This newspaper wrote about that comeback last May). Now Ms. Siciliano has become part of its second wind.
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