The municipality of tacoronteland of good and famous wines, has named street Calimocho, or also Kalimotxoto the road that connects two essential industries in the town, the factory of Coca Cola and the Regional Winerya denomination that has started from a popular occurrence.
Calimocho is that drink in which cola and wine are mixed. According to the City Council, “one fine day, someone from the street that connects both production centers slipped a humorous comment” that later gave rise to a municipal file that ended with the new name of the street.
The neighbor, according to this story, commented to his companions: “Hey, have you noticed that Coca Cola is on the left and the Regional Winery on the right?”
And he concluded with his friends laughing: “Well, it is very clear that we are in the middle of something very important, because if we mix Coca Cola and wine, the result is calimocho.”
The joke was funny and had a run. It reached the ears of the managers of the winery and the soft drink factory and they all welcomed the idea of naming the street after the cocktail.
The initiative came from Mayor José Daniel Díaz Armas, still in office until next Wednesday, when the new corporation will be established in which he will become the leader of the opposition.
The Calimocho street sign also appears in Basque, Kalimotxo, because “this drink, which now has more than half a century of existence, is a creation of the last century” in the Basque Country, details the City Council. It seems that “it is the first route in Spain with this daring denomination”.
Wine has a secular tradition in Tacoronte, whose wines are part of the Tacoronte-Acentejo Denomination of Origin.
Coca Cola is more recent. This industry was established in 1996 and since then it supplies the Canary Islands with 120 million liters per year that it manufactures from the waters of the underground springs of the municipality.
The mayor has celebrated this symbiosis: “Tacoronte is a land of wines, ranchers and farmers, but it is also a place of welcome for entrepreneurs and dreamers”
