"Spill the Wine" is a 1970 song performed by Eric Burdon and the band War. It was released as a single in May 1970, backed by the non-album track "Magic Mountain", and was War's first chart hit.

"Spill the Wine" first appeared on the album Eric Burdon Declares War and runs 4:51. Its writing credits include Papa Dee Allen, Harold Brown, B.B. Dickerson, Lonnie Jordan, Charles Miller, Lee Oskar, and Howard Scott. The song was inspired by an accident in which keyboardist Lonnie Jordan spilled wine on a mixing board. It features a prevalent flute solo, and the sound of a woman speaking Spanish—a female friend of Eric Burdon's—is heard in the background. An edited version, released as a promo single for radio stations and subsequently included on most compilations, omits the middle spoken recitation, plus one chorus. The song was re-released as a single in 1996, after remixing by Junior Vasquez.

"Spill the Wine" was War's first chart hit. It peaked at number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US.Billboard ranked the single the number 20 song of 1970. It was also a top 3 hit in Canada, and Australia in mid-November 1970. It charted at number 5 in Mexico, at number 15 in the Netherlands and at number 28 in Germany.

"Spill the Wine" has been used in the sound tracks of the following motion pictures:

The song was used in the sound tracks of the following television episodes:

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