In Catalan, the word is usually spelled calimotxo, although kalimotxo is also common.

In some areas of Boston, kalimotxo is served in bars in short glass tumblers.

The spelling kalimotxo has been in use in the Southern Basque Country since the 1970s.

Kinito is a drinking game involving people, two dice, a table, a cup or basket, and beer or sangria or kalimotxo.

In kalimotxo and motxo, the Basque sound tx is pronounced like ch in both English and Spanish.

A common way of serving kalimotxo is in one liter drinking glasses made of plastic, called minis, cachi, macetas, litros, cubalitros or jarras.

As the crowd bounced, white outfits turned pink, then red, as sangria and kalimotxo (a mixture of wine and coke) was thrown, champagne corks popped, and people surfed on top of outstretched hands.

The current name, "Kalimotxo", is attributed to the "Antzarrak cuadrilla" ("Geese young friends circle"), which supposedly coined it during the 1972 Puerto Viejo festivities (in Algorta, Getxo, Basque Country).