The Williams Fizz is many things: It is bright and refreshing, tart and fruity, broad and velvety, and is as good a drink for early autumn as exists on this earth. It is also, as the name suggests, a Fizz.
What’s a Fizz? Cocktail people don’t talk about Fizzes much these days, which is weird because it used to be that they couldn’t shut up about them. The Fizz used to be everywhere. From 1880 until at least 1930 it was a phenomenon, second in popularity only to the Cocktail…

