Oscar Wilde once said that there is nothing more ‘poetical’ than drinking absinthe. ‘What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?’ the great man mused. Infamous for its alleged ...

Absinthe is back. Dozens of European distillers are conjuring up the "green fairy" for new palates, its fresh, meadowy taste reminiscent of pastis. The drink was banned in America and much of Europe ...

Last week, we posted a blog series on absinthe that included pointers on how to distill absinthe and how to make absinthe from kits. Some readers expressed kit absinthe is not “real” absinthe, with ...

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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. “The Green Fairy.” That’s the stuff that makes people crazy, right? Didn’t the French Impressionist painters guzzle it by the gallon and have wild visions? These are the kinds of questions ...

Were you to line up famous scapegoats, along with the biblical Eve, hapless Cubs fan Steve Bartman and Mrs. O'Leary's arsonist cow, you'd have to give a nod to absinthe, the bitter, ...

When Libertine closed in Adams Morgan to make way for Rosario, it left D.C. without a dedicated absinthe bar. Fortunately, Mirabelle has stepped up and set a goal of being the largest pourer of the ...