A century ago, absinthe was at its peak in drinking and popular culture. As temperance campaigns aimed to vilify the drink, its mythos only grew. Citizens were warned that it would lead them down the ...

Tales of the Cocktail and New Orleans are proud to host the opening of the Absinthe Museum of America. It will be the first of its kind in the United States to not only showcase the rare and extensive ...

SAUMUR, France – SAUMUR, France (AP) — Steam rising from floor vents swirls around the base of century-old stills in the Combier distillery in the Loire valley. Jean-Pierre Plisson, a veteran of ...

PARISPARIS — French absinthe makers can finally say what’s in the bottle. French authorities banned the liquorice-tasting tipple a century ago because of its alleged hallucinogenic qualities.

I walked through the open doors from Bourbon Street into the Old Absinthe House on a Friday afternoon as people were revving up, knocking back beers and plugging away at the jukebox. But in the corner ...

Absinthe served in the traditional way at the Armand Guy distillery in Pontarlier, France. Photo Credit: SEBASTIEN BOZON/AFP/Getty Images In my younger years, I did what many in the creative class do.

French absinthe - the drink so notorious that it was banned for 80 years - has been given an EU protected status. The highly potent green drink - widely associated with Belle Epoque artistic figures ...

Absinthe is a spirit that drove poets to delirium and lesser men to "the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world," according to occult writer Marie Corelli. That's quite a payload to expect from ...

French producers of absinthe, the green spirit said to have inspired Van Gogh, have won a 15-year battle to have their fiery drink receive European protected status. This week, Brussels granted ...