Kalimotxo

the ingredients

 Kalimotxo (or Calimocho/Kalimocho) is a popular Spanish drink that is 50% red wine (the cheaper, the better, but please, no boxed wine!) and 50% Coca-Cola. It has many other names: Rioja libre (Rioja, a typical Spanish house red wine, and the Cuba Libre - rum and coke); in Chile it's known as jote (translates to the "black vulture"); Romanians call it motorină, meaning diesel fuel, and in Bosnia, Serbia, the Republic of Macedonia, Croatia, Slovenia, etc. (other former Yugoslav republics) it is known as bambus (meaning bamboo) and musolini (as in Benito Mussolini). In the Czech Republic it is known as houba (meaning mushroom), and in Hungary as Vadász (meaning hunter) or vörösboros kóla or VBK for short. In Mozambique and South Africa it is known as Catemba, and in Germany it is sometimes called Korea.

una mezcla - already mixed!

*And yes, I googled all those facts. I don't typically know the origins of all alcoholic drinks off the top of my head (but that'd be some party trick.)

calimocho

So Brittany came over to do some laundry and we happened to have both red wine and Coca-Cola in the fridge (left over from last Thursday's Spain soccer match pre-game fiasco) and we decided to try it out. It's what I like to think of as the poor man's sangria. It has the same kind of fruitiness and the Coca-Cola add both bubbles and a hint of sweetness that's typically in sangria. Definitely something worth trying!!