Best Kalimotxo Recipe: How to Make a Spanish Red Wine & Coke Cocktail

Ah, the Kalimotxo. What can be said about the Kalimotxo that hasn’t been pretentiously asserted by an undergraduate who just learned about it?

The Kalimotxo (sometimes spelled “Calimocho” and pronounced cah-lee-mo-cho ) is the seemingly unlikely combination of red wine and Coca-cola, and is a very Spanish drink. It’s more Spanish than the (which uses Spanish sherry), more than the (which started in Spain but is more Mexican now), and more Spanish than the (which isn’t even a little Spanish). It’s even more Spanish than the Gin & Tonic, which is English by way of India but has been adopted by Spain the way that the jungle adopted Tarzan.

The reason it’s more Spanish than these others is that the Kalimotxo is a drink that is really only ever found in Spain, and then, only by a certain su