‘It’s the meaning of happiness’: How the Aperol spritz took over the summer

Don’t we all? That this most orange of orange drinks should be on people’s minds as soon as the weather hots up is nothing new. Aperol was invented in 1919 by two brothers, Luigi and Silvio Barbieri, from Padova, northern Italy, and it has basically meant “summer” ever since. Luisa Hallen, of drinks producer SoGood Saké, says: “When you go on holidays and you’re watching the sun set and you drink an Aperol spritz you’ve found the meaning of, you know, happiness.”