Somewhere in Veneto, someone got tired of the ritual. The Aperol, the Prosecco, the soda water, the orange slice, the exact ratio you can never quite remember after the second one. So they put the whole thing in one bottle.
That's the idea behind the Il mio gusto line — Italian sparkling cocktails that arrive finished. You don't build them. You open them, pour them over ice, and that's the entire recipe.
It's not a shortcut. It's the point.
There's a version of this story where a ready-made cocktail is a compromise — the thing you drink when you can't be bothered to make the real one. That's not what's happening here. The Veneto has been making spritz-style aperitivi for a century; the region invented the category. Bottling it well isn't cutting corners, it's just moving the bartending upstream, into the hands of someone who does it for a living and gets the balance right every single time.
That consistency is the whole appeal. A home-mixed Spritz varies with whoever's holding the bottle. A bottled one doesn't.
The range
Each one leans on a different Italian summer flavour:
- SpritzOne — the classic Venetian spritz, bitter-orange and effervescent, the one that started the category
- Limonsecco — Limoncello and spumante in one bottle, sharp and citrusy
- Bellini — the Harry's Bar classic, white peach and fine bubbles
- Amarenissima — sour cherry, more dessert than aperitif
- Frutti di Bosco — blueberry and blackberry, a darker, more autumnal profile
- Melonsecco — cantaloupe and mint, the newest and lightest of the range
How to actually serve them
Large wine glass, plenty of ice — more than feels reasonable, it melts fast — and nothing else needed. If you want to dress it up: a slice of orange for SpritzOne, a mint leaf for Melonsecco, a few frozen berries for Frutti di Bosco dropped straight into the glass so they chill it as they thaw.
They're built for the moment when you want something that feels like an occasion but you have four minutes, not forty: a terrace, a Friday that just ended, people arriving before you're ready for them.