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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

LONDON, England – Yesterday the French Senate finally voted to lift the ban against absinthe in France. LONDON, England – Yesterday the French Senate finally voted to lift the ban against absinthe in ...

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 ...

Belle Epoque Absinthe Lounge (240 Bourbon St.) opens Oct. 17 behind the Old Absinthe House bar, in the space that housed Tony Moran’s Restaurant until 2016. The building on the corner of Bourbon and ...