Absinthe, often called “the green fairy,” is an emerald-hued spirit steeped in myth, history and allure. It has captured the imaginations of artists, writers and connoisseurs for centuries, becoming ...

Thursday is National Absinthe Day — a good time to celebrate the Green Fairy, its legendary nickname. Absinthe is said to have originated in Switzerland in the late 18th century and by the mid-19th ...

Cincinnati saloons rarely served absinthe in the French style, employing it more as an adjunct to alcoholic concoctions, like bitters. If you were to wander into one of Cincinnati’s tonier watering ...

From roughly 1860 to 1890, French wine drinkers were under assault. A blight called phylloxera had nearly decimated the country’s vineyards and the nation’s wine industry. What wine remained in shops ...

Mardi Gras is not about partying. I mean it definitely is, but it’s about more than that. Mardi Gras is about exuberance. Obviously, it’s a drinking holiday, but you shouldn’t just drink anything; ...

Atop a secret staircase, guarded by a lithe and lovely Siamese cat, a tiny lounge beckoned. The cat threaded itself about my ankles as we made sense of the skeleton key and entered what had once been ...

As I sip a cold glass of absinthe, I can't help but think my surroundings are a little incongruous. The sun-dappled forest floor is thick with beech leaves. I'm standing at Fontaine à Louis, a ...

Las Vegas(KLAS)-Absinthe has launched a new cocktail menu for the show, The Green Fairy Garden, and Pier 17. Executive of Beverage at Spiegelworld, Niko Novick, joined Las Vegas Now to make “The Yum ...

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Perhaps it was best to take my first taste of absinthe on a hearty Oregon afternoon in July. Sunlight seems suitable inoculation against the potion's legendary sorcery. My guides ...

Jean Lanfray, 32, a laborer from the little village of Commugny, Switzerland, rose before dawn on August 28, 1905, and started his morning with two glasses of absinthe. He did not stop drinking for ...