50% red wine

50% coca-cola

* variations include adding a splash of blackberry liquor.

This concoction is also known as Calimocho and is Basque in origin.

Other names include:

  • Rioja Libre
  • Jote (“Black Vulture” ) – in Chile
  • Bambus (“bamboo”) – in Bosnia & Heregovina, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia and neighboring countries
  • Houba (“mushroom’) – in the Czech Republic
  • Vadasz (“hunter”) or Vorosboros Kola / VBK – in Hungary
  • Catemba – in Mozambique and South Africa