A carbonated soft drink flavored with caramel, vanilla, and a blend of spices including kola nut extract. It is the defining mixer in a Cuba Libre and is widely paired with rum, whiskey, and bourbon.

The house drink of Tequila's La Capilla bar — tequila, cola, and lime in a salt-rimmed glass — an easy, effervescent highball stirred traditionally with a knife.

Batanga

Don Javier Delgado Corona's iconic Tequila, Mexico drink — reposado tequila with fresh lime and cola over ice with a salted rim, stirred with a knife as tradition demands, a Mexican bar staple since the 1960s.

Batanga Reposado

The bar-stool standby of bourbon stretched with cola and a squeeze of lime, balancing vanilla-and-caramel sweetness with cola spice and bubbles in a foolproof long drink.

Bourbon and Cola

Mexico's answer to the Rum and Coke -- tequila and cola with a squeeze of lime and a salt rim for a simple, crowd-pleasing highball.

Charro Negro

The Havana-born rum-and-cola highball lifted by fresh lime, drinking sweet, fizzy, and nostalgic — a Spanish-American War-era drink built around one of the world's simplest flavor pairings.

Cuba Libre

Argentina's unofficial national drink pours Fernet-Branca over ice and tops with cola, building a bittersweet highball where menthol, saffron, and cola spices play off one another.

Fernandito

Argentina's unofficial national cocktail — Fernet-Branca's menthol-and-saffron bitterness pairs with Coca-Cola's caramel sweetness in a way that is deeply divisive outside Buenos Aires and completely addictive inside it.

Fernet and Coke

A Long Island-born 1970s powerhouse stacking five white spirits with lemon and a cola top, engineered to taste deceptively like iced tea while hitting like nothing of the sort.

Long Island Iced Tea

The Cuban-born Cuba Libre in its simplest form, where light rum, cold cola, and a squeeze of lime come together into the most casual of highballs.

Rum and Coke

One of the most popular two-ingredient cocktails in the world, combining bourbon or rye with cola over ice. The caramel and vanilla notes of bourbon are amplified by cola's sweetness and carbonation.