Kalimotxo is a drink made up of equal portions of red wine and cola-based soft drinks. Although recently developed, it has become an icon of Basque culture.
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Preparation and presentation
Kalimotxo is served in the bar in a short glass of glass. A lot of ice is added, then red wine and cola. In other areas drinks are served in tall glasses. Sometimes Ouzo or anise is added. Other variations require a touch of lime.
The general way to present kalimotxo is in a glass of liter liters of water, called minis , cachi , macetas , i>, cubalitros or jarras . This mix is ​​made directly in this one liter mini , and often a cola bottle is used again to make more mix. This is done by emptying a half bottle of two liter cola and add a liter of red wine to the bottle. Ice is usually added to a drink. The minis was then divided between the drinkers group, especially during the botelló³ drinking street encounters.
At a time when fewer available resources, a common occurrence among Spanish youth, (a lack of a liter of 'mini') drastic action was taken by young Spanish people. One common cheap way of mixing Kalimotxo involves a plastic bag and a Tetra Brik carton of cheap red wine (Don SimÃÆ'³n is a common brand). A two-liter bottle of Coca-Cola and two liters of wine emptied into a plastic shopping bag. After the mixture is mixed in the bag, the bag is squeezed tightly around the edge of a two-liter bottle of Coca-Cola and the contents of the bag are poured into the bottle. The now empty Tetra Brik wine cartoon is fully opened and peeled back to mimic the 'mini' function. The Coca-Cola bottle is then used as a distribution tool to fill the temporary 'mini'.
A variation of the drink is accomplished by adding a little blackberries. Similar ingredients using red wine include pitilingorri or caliguay (50% white wine and 50% lemon-flavored soft drinks), (see spritzer); pitilin gorri (50% red wine and 50% orange soda). "Tinto de verano", more common outside the Basque country, is half the red wine and half "Casera", a slightly sweet soda water. In other variations, one can add to 50/50 cola and red wine drink a little from Greece, Ouzo, to make a drink called Pallas.
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Name
It is not clear where the name came from. In the early 1970s it was called Rioja Libre or Cuba Libre del pobre (the poor Cuban Libre) in some Spanish provinces. The current name, "Kalimotxo", is associated with "Geese young friends circle", which supposedly sparked it during the 1972 Puerto Viejo celebrations (in Algorta, Getxo, Basque Country). Legend has it that the servers in one of the "txosna" (standing at the Basque festival where drinks are served) noticed that the wine they bought was not in good condition, so they decided to mix it with something to kill the sour taste. The inventors of the mix named it after two friends of the cuadrilla known as "Kalimero" (after Calimero's chickens) and "Motxo" , hence the name "Kalimotxo" . The name is popular and became popular throughout Spain.
Spelling kalimotxo has been used in Southern Basque Country since the 1970s. The Sandevid Company, which is used to sell ready-made times, uses the kalimocho spelling.
In kalimotxo and motxo, Basque sounds tx are pronounced like ch in English and Spanish. Since the name is now common throughout Spain, however, it is generally the response of calimocho in accordance with Spanish orthography. In Catalan, this word is usually spelled calimotxo , though kalimotxo is also common.
Alternate names include "The Pimenta" in Portugal, Rioja libre (from "Rioja", and "Cuba Libre"), times , motxo . In Chile, this drink is known as jote (Chilean spanish for black vulture). In Romania it is often called motorin? , which means diesel fuel, and in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Macedonia, Croatia, Slovenia, and other former Yugoslav republics and Albania, known as bambus (meaning bamboo) and musolini (as in Benito Mussolini). In the Czech Republic is known as houba (meaning mushroom), and in Hungary as VadÃÆ'¡sz (meaning hunter) or vÃÆ'¶rÃÆ'¶sboros kÃÆ'³la (meaning cola with red wine) or VBK for short. In Mozambique and South Africa known as Catemba , and in Germany it is sometimes called Kalte Muschi (cold vagina) or Korean .
References
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