Coke and Wine?
We just got off a cruise last week and got very friendly with the sommelier. He told us his favorite summertime drink is mixing red wine with Coke and chilling it. Has anyone ever done this? It sounds absolutely disgusting to me and I'm not sure I want to risk it!
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28 Comments:
There was Bourdain scene in Uruguay where some dudes were pouring this. They called it 7&something, where something is another number and refers to the ratio of wine to coke. Never seen it in the states though.
kitchengeeking at 10:24AM on 02/19/09
yes! calimixo (pronounced calimocho). i drank it a lot in the basque country in spain. of course, i was 21, and mixing it in the street in pamplona, but very refreshing (and the coke helps you stay up all night!)
jlbrach at 10:40AM on 02/19/09
I think it's gross, but a lot of my friends became fast fans of the calimixo (can be orange soda sometimes, too) after spending a month in Spain climbing at Mallorca.
joyyy at 10:44AM on 02/19/09
oops. meant calimoxo.
jlbrach at 10:58AM on 02/19/09
Seems pretty low-brow, like something you would do to make cheap wine more bearable. My friend in Mexico mixes boxed red wine with Squirt, which is a tasty the poor (and lazy) man's sangria.
LiveToEat at 11:37AM on 02/19/09
I just cannot see mixing good wine with soda. It may be refreshing but it would not be something I would do to good wine. Blasphemy. We all do blasphemy to something eventually. I will pick something else.
JerzeeTomato at 11:45AM on 02/19/09
My aunt drinks beer and coke mixed together. I have yet to try it.
ag3208 at 12:00PM on 02/19/09
Surprisingly tasty! try it, it's not as terrible as you think :)
froggo at 12:25PM on 02/19/09
Do you mix equal parts coke and wine? I'm assuming I should buy the cheapo 1.75ml bottle of something under 10 bucks? ha!
jcrisco at 12:30PM on 02/19/09
yes -- cheap wine -- don't do this with your fancy red!
jlbrach at 12:31PM on 02/19/09
This just sounds like a variation on wine spritzers, instead of 7-Up or Sprite you use Cola.
Martini Me at 12:54PM on 02/19/09
Jibrach, I think that's a different kind of coke.
renzata at 1:13PM on 02/19/09
absolutely -- sounds gross i know, but just try it. use a cheap red wine. we drank calimochos ALL the time in madrid.
megannesta at 2:05PM on 02/19/09
Yep, this is super popular in spain. They like to mix alcohol and soda in variations we definitely don't do here in the US. Also try white wine and orange Fanta or my favorite, Clara: beer (preferably San Miguel) with Fanta limon (if you can find it).
Embackus at 2:25PM on 02/19/09
A friend of mine introduced me to this recently, and it DOES sounds disgusting. But it isn't. Of course, do not use actual expensive wine. But that $6-8 bottle of a decent red wine mixed in equal parts with some full-bodied coca-cola in a tumbler...well, it's just tasty. Then again, we're graduate students, so maybe we're just kidding ourselves because we're stretching out that bottle of wine...
jcmeloni at 2:48PM on 02/19/09
I heard about this from a Spanish acquaintance and was also bowled over. But like most things, I guess I'd try it once.
marieinla at 3:05PM on 02/19/09
@Embackus -- i LOVE claras! LOVE them. they are the perfect summer drink. i have been searching in vain for years to find fanta limon here in the states and short of ordering a case from some import company it just doesn't look like it's going to happen.
megannesta at 3:32PM on 02/19/09
For those of you who are haters, think of it as the college student's sangria-- the sweetness comes from the coke instead of the fruit, and it is bubbly. Often, it is served with a lemon, which really cements this theory.
dagoose at 4:41PM on 02/19/09
it's the drink of choice when we're making tamales every year at christmas :) other than that, it never occurs to me to drink it.
billyburgwife at 5:25PM on 02/19/09
I'm sorry but as someone who has heart disease since I was 20, through no lifestyle fault of my own, just faulty DNA, I have huge issues with those who mix stimulants and depressants. If you have underlying heart disease and have no idea you can die because of drinks like these.
Please be careful, I don't think any reason for trying something that's "cool" or stretching a buck is worth a life.
bobcatsteph3 at 7:03PM on 02/19/09
@bobcatsteph3, wouldn't that translate though to any mixed drink with soda, like jack and coke? don't get me wrong i'm not disagreeing with you, i just thought it was pretty common practice to mix liquor and soda.
megannesta at 7:56PM on 02/19/09
Love it! I like to use the trader joe's two buck chuck!
watchforbears at 8:10PM on 02/19/09
Yeah its common practice to mix liquor and caffeinated beverages. This a lot different than railing speedballs(cocaine and Tranquilizers/muscle relaxers) and I think unless there is a major condition going on, most people would have no problem with this drink. And if you do have heart problems are sure you are aware of what you should ingest. With all the caution in the world some people just forget to live. If you took advice from every cautionary tale you would be stuck in a bubble being fed via IV.
Anyway yeah it sounds delicious and I can't wait for a summer day to try some (maybe in mexico next month!!!).
twoojoe at 8:57PM on 02/19/09
@bobcatsteph3: Your warning is clearly in good faith and made out of concern for our health. But megannesta has a point - various high proof liquors that are often paired with coke are far more potent and dangerous than coke mixed with red wine (13%-16% alcohol).
Calimoxo is a decent remedy for oxidized or corked red wine. In Toledo, Spain, I bought (I believe) the nastiest bottle of red wine on earth. But A two liter bottle of ice cold coke saved the evening.
Susquehanna at 9:24PM on 02/19/09
A Spanish/Mexican friend told me that they do that in the northern part of Spain, the Basque region I think.
Foodie Penguin at 10:50PM on 02/19/09
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/fashion/02shake.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=wine%20coke&st=cse
sustarz at 11:03PM on 02/19/09
I think a calimotxo is gross, but it's tolerable when you use super cheap box wine from the supermarket. My brother and I drank lots of these when we were broke college students in Spain. The coke definitely masks the crappiness of the $1/liter wine :)
charm city cupcake at 11:11PM on 02/19/09
@ jcrisco... don't they have beer where you live?!
Pavlov at 10:08AM on 02/20/09