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These Hugo Spritz Cocktails are a delightfully refreshing summer spritzer with fresh mint, lime, elderflower syrup, Prosecco, and sparkling water! With dozens of 5-star reviews, you’ll be making this foolproof cocktail all summer.
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“Was recently introduced to this refreshing cocktail in Venice, Italy. Your recipe tastes just like it and takes me back to sunny days in Italy.” —Lisa
I first encountered the Hugo Spritz while on a ski trip in the Dolomites of Northern Italy years ago. And while winter isn’t the classic season for enjoying this refreshing spritzer, I couldn’t get enough of it.
I began practicing making them at home, and by the time summer rolled around, I had perfected the Hugo Spritz recipe! With just a few minutes of work, you’ll have a refreshing summery cocktail as good as the stuff on the Amalfi coast! Let’s do this.
Key Ingredients
This is just an overview–jump to the recipe card for all measurements.
- Mint and Lime: Refreshing mint and zesty lime slices are the ingredients that set the Hugo Spritz apart from other spritzes!
- Elderflower Syrup: Floral, sweet, and delicious! You can either make elderflower syrup yourself or buy it online. You can also use elderflower liqueur here, like St-Germain.
- Prosecco: A dry sparkling white wine from the town of Prosecco in Northern Italy. I always go with an affordable bottle of bubbly from Costco!
- Sparkling/Seltzer Water: You can use either, as they’re about the same thing. Seltzer was a German brand of sparkling water whose popularity transformed it into a generic trademark kind of like “Kleenex”.
Easy Elderflower Hugo Spritz Cocktails (Top-Rated)
Ingredients
- ½ cup ice cubes
- 5 mint leaves
- 2 slices lime
- 1 Tbsp elderflower syrup, more if you like it sweet, 15 mL
- ½ cup Prosecco or white sparkling wine, 120
- 1 splash sparkling water
Instructions
- Muddle: Add ½ cup ice cubes, 5 mint leaves, and 2 slices lime to a glass and briefly muddle or stir to release the mint oils and lime juice.
- Assemble: Pour in 1 Tbsp elderflower syrup, ½ cup Prosecco or white sparkling wine, and 1 splash sparkling water.
- Serve: Stir to combine and serve immediately, garnished with more fresh mint.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information calculated by Sarah Bond, degreed nutritionist.
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The BEST summer drink! it’s like if Aperol Sptriz had a cooler older underrated sister. Drinking by the pool allllll summer!
The Hugo was fantastic instead of seltzer I used fever tree elderflower tonic water ( yum) and I used St.Germaine instead of elderflower syrup and tons of mint leaves -SO GOOD!!
Big smiles over here, thanks for trying it!