Limoncello Spritz – 🍋 An EASY, refreshing, and perfectly lemony drink with just 3 key ingredients including prosecco, limoncello, and club soda! No fancy bartending skills needed to impress your friends and family and feel like you’re transported to Italy while sipping on one of these bubbly lemon beauties!
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Easy Limoncello Spritz Recipe
Spring is in the air, summer is on the horizon, and while I know many people who drink limoncello around the holidays, for me this is a bright and cheery drink that’s refreshing for warm weather and sunny days.
Whether you want to serve these for brunch, including Mother’s Day brunch alongside mimosas, aperol spritz or on a lazy weekend afternoon or at a casual backyard get-together, everyone loves this lightly bubbly cocktail.
Made with just 3 key ingredients – including prosecco, limoncello, and club soda – and optional agave or simple syrup, this is such an easy drink to make even if bartending skills aren’t your forte.
I love to use my Homemade Limoncello (limoncello is an Italian liqueur) in this sipping drink, but of course store bought limoncello is fine. The lemon flavor is just lovely.
With one of these effervescent and perfectly lemony and tart cocktails in your hand, you’ll feel like you’re transported to southern Italy and the Amalfi Coast. Cin cin!
Ingredients in Limoncello Spritz
There are only a handful of ingredients in this easy limoncellos spritz cocktail including:
- Ice cubes
- Prosecco – Cava, champagne, sparkling white wine, or your favorite dry bubbly beverage may be used.
- Limoncello – Use your favorite but my Homemade Limoncello is what I use! Although store bought limoncello is fine.
- Club soda (soda water)
- Agave or simple syrup – optional but recommended
- Optional garnishes including lemon wedges or lemon slices, sprig of mint, basil, rosemary sprigs, fresh thyme, or your favorites. You can also use fruit including strawberries, peaches, or berries of any kind.
Note: Scroll down to the recipe card section of the post for the ingredients with amounts included and for more complete directions.
How To Make a Limoncello Spritz Cocktail
You don’t need to be a bartender for this quick and easy drink recipe!
- Add ice to a glass. Wine glasses, rocks glasses, whatever you have that’s about 8 ounces will be fine.
- Pour in some of the prosecco from the bottle of prosecco, add the limoncello, club soda, stir, and taste.
- If desired add a dash of your favorite sweetener and stir
- Garnish with a lemon wheel, mint sprigs, and serve and sip!
Limoncello Spritz FAQs
Yes of course! I love my homemade limoncello (limoncello is an Italian lemon liqueur) but store bought limoncello will work.
Yes you sure can. Since it’s a ratio of 3:2:1 (3 parts prosecco- 2 parts limoncello – 1 part club soda) and then sweetener to taste, you can big batch this, as desired.
Yes and no. While neither prosecco nor club soda will go flat in an instant, I wouldn’t make it more than a few hours in advance because the carbonation will dissipate. Store it in a pitcher in your fridge until you’re ready to serve it.
No. A lemon drop includes vodka, lemon juice, and simple syrup. Whereas this lemon spritz cocktail has processo, limoncello (which is sweetened in the process of making it with simple syrup), club soda, and optional additional simple syrup.
Yes you can. Swap out the prosecco in this recipe with vodka, add the limoncello, omit the club soda, and add sweetener to taste. Add it all to a shaker with ice, strain, and serve.
Yes you sure can. My husband has an excellent Limoncello Aperol Spritz recipe on his drinks site! Follow it to the T for an excellent drink.
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Limoncello Spritz
Ingredients
- ice
- 3 ounces dry prosecco, (cava, champagne, or your favorite dry bubbly may be substituted)
- 2 ounces limoncello, (use my homemade limoncello recipe or your favorite store bought)
- 1 ounce club soda
- ¼ to ½ ounce simple syrup, agave, or your favorite sweetener, optional and to taste
- lemon wedges, fresh mint, fresh basil, etc., optional for garnishing
Instructions
- Fill an 8-ounce glass most of the way with ice.
- Add the prosecco, limoncello, club soda, stir gently, and taste.
- Optionally, if desired, add a bit of sweetener, to taste, and stir.
- Optionally garnish, as desired, and serve.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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Great cocktail! I love it
Yes it sure is a winner! Glad you love it!