Calimocho (from the Basque Kalimotxo) is a drink consisting of approximately 50% red wine and 50% cola-based soft drink. Alternative names include Rioja libre (from "Rioja", and "Cuba Libre"), and either kali or motxo (shortened from the Basque name). Basque (native name: Euskara) is the language spoken by the Basque people who inhabit the Pyrenees in North-Central Spain and the adjoining region of South-Western France. ... This article is about the beverage. ... Several different brands of cola. ... A soft drink is a drink that contains no alcohol. ... Rioja is a wine from a region named after the Rio Oja in Spain, a tributary of the Ebro. ... Cuba Libre The Cuba Libre (IPA /kuβ̞aliβ̞ɾe/ in Spanish, /kjuːbʌ liːbɹeɪ/ in English), sometimes known as Rum and Coke in the U.S., is a cocktail made of Cola, lime and rum. ...

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Preparation and serving

In Spanish bars, calimocho is prepared in short glass tumblers. Plenty of ice is added, then the red wine and cola. Finally the cocktail is well stirred with a spoon.

A common way of serving calimocho is in one liter drinking glasses made of plastic, called minis, katxi, litros, cubalitros or jarras. The mixture is made directly in this one-liter mini, and often the bottles of cola are reused to make more of the mixture. This is done by emptying half of a two-litre cola bottle and adding one litre of red wine to the bottle. Ice is usually added to the drink.

In times of fewer available resources, a common place among Spanish youth, (lack of one liter 'mini') drastic measures are taken by young Spaniards in order to save money. One common cheap way of mixing Calimocho involves a plastic bag and the Tetra Bric which contains the cheap 'Vino Tinto' or Red Wine(Don Simon is a common brand). An entire two liter bottle of Coca-Cola and two liters of wine are emptied into a plastic shopping bag. Once the concoction is mixed in the bag, the bag is squeezed tightly around the rim of the two liter Coca-Cola bottle and the contents of the bag are poured into the bottle. The now empty Tetra Bric wine boxes are fully opened and pealed back as to mimic the function of the 'mini'. The Coca-Cola bottle is used as distribution device to fill the makeshift 'mini' with delicious Calimoxo.

One variation of the drink is achieved by adding a dash of blackberry liqueur. Occasional rarer variants exist, such as 50% white wine and 50% lemon-flavoured soft drink, called pitilingorri or caliguay in some places (see spritzer). 50% red wine and 50% orange soda is also called pitilin gorri (gorri is "red" in euskera). The BlackBerry is a wireless handheld device introduced in 1999 which supports push e-mail, mobile telephone, text messaging, internet faxing, web browsing and other wireless information services. ... Bottles of strawberry liqueur A liqueur is a sweet alcoholic beverage, often flavoured with fruits, herbs, spices, flowers, seeds, roots, plants, barks, and sometimes cream. ... A spritzer is a tall, chilled drink, usually made with white wine and soda water. ...

Origin of the name

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The actual name, Kalimotxo, is attributed to the Antzarrak "cuadrilla", which supposedly invented the name in 1972s festivals of Algorta's "Puerto Viejo" (Getxo, Biscay). In a txozna (a usual stand in Basque festivals where there are served drinks) they noticed that the wine the had bought to serve was not in very good conditions. Not to lose the money they had spent, they decided to mix it with something. The inventors of the mixture where two members of the cuadrilla known as Kalimero and Motxo, and since a lot of people liked the mixture, they decided to call it Kalimotxo in its makers honour. From that day on, the name has become popular in the Basque Country and other parts of Spain. 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Location of Getxo in Biscay. ... Vizcaya province Vizcaya (Basque Bizkaia) is a province of northern Spain, in the northwestern part of the autonomous community of the Basque Country. ... The Basque Country refers to a group of places inhabited by Basque people: The Basque Country (historical territory) (Euskal Herria) is the area inhabited by Basques, claimed by Basque nationalists. ...

Spelling

The spelling kalimotxo has been in use in the Southern Basque Country since the 1970s. The Sandevid corporation, which used to sell prepared kali, used the spelling kalimocho.

In kalimotxo and motxo, the Basque sound tx is pronounced like ch in both English and Spanish. Since the name is now common throughout Spain, however, it is commonly respelled calimocho^[1] in accordance with Spanish orthography. In Catalan, the word is usually spelt calimotxo, although kalimotxo is also common. The orthography of a language is the set of symbols (glyphs and diacritics) used to write a language, as well as the set of rules describing how to write these glyphs, including spelling, punctuation, and capitalization. ... Catalan IPA: (català IPA: or []) is a Romance language, the national language of Andorra and co-official in the Spanish autonomous communities of Balearic Islands, Valencia (under the name Valencian) and Catalonia. ...

Further reading

• La verdadera historia del kalimotxo, ed. Funky Projects, 2006. ISBN 84-934990-0-5.

Reference

1. ^ calimocho in the Diccionario de la Real Academia Española.