You don’t need a lot of ingredients to craft a Limoncello Spritz at home. In fact, you just need the following five items:
Ingredient quantities are detailed in the printable recipe card below.
Some Limoncello Spritz recipes include additional garnishes like basil, mint and rosemary. However, we purposefully keep ours herb-free to preserve the lemon flavor and to keep the Limoncello cocktail yellow.
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Limoncello
It’s no stretch to call Limoncello the most important ingredient in a Limoncello Spritz. Not only is it in the drink’s name, but it also provides the drink’s yellow color and sweet citrus flavor.
Over achievers can make Limoncello from scratch with lemon peel, vodka and sugar. The other option is to buy bottled Limoncello at a liquor store which is what we did. The difficult part was narrowing our choice of four different Limoncello bottles. Actually, it wasn’t that difficult.
It was an easy decision to buy a bottle of Luxardo Limoncello since we’re fans off the company’s maraschino cherries and maraschino liqueur. It was a good choice. Produced with Sicilian lemons, Luxardo’s Limoncello has bright flavors and a 27% ABV.
Pro Tip
Store your Limoncello bottle in the refrigerator or freezer so that it’s ready for action when and if you get a sudden Limoncello craving.
Prosecco
Since the Limoncello Spritz is an Italian cocktail, it makes sense to use Prosecco instead of a different sparkling wine like Spain’s Cava or France’s Champagne. We bought a bottle of extra dry Reguta DOC Prosecco from our local market. Produced with glera grapes, it was another good choice.
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Sparkling Water
We’re not going to pretend that the brand of sparkling water really matters. However, we chose to stay with the Italian theme by purchasing a bottle of Pellegrino sparkling water for this Limoncello Spritz recipe.
We stand by this choice but understand if you’d rather use another sparkling water brand or even club soda instead.
