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Kalimotxo Recipe

Kalimotxo

Red wine and cola in equal parts over ice — Basque, unpretentious, and better than it has any right to be.

Ingredients

How to Make It

  1. Fill a tall glass with ice.
  2. Pour the red wine and cola in together, in equal parts.
  3. Stir once.
  4. Garnish with a lemon wedge.

Garnish

Lemon wedge

The Story

Invented at a Basque festival in 1972 when a batch of wine turned out to be undrinkable and someone reached for the cola crate.

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