There's something romantic about absinthe — that naturally green liquor derived from wormwood and herbs like anise or fennel. Vincent Van Gogh and Oscar Wilde drank it. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and ...

One of the best absinthes in the world is made 60 miles northeast of Louisville. And its secret ingredient is a storied family recipe for Eastern Kentucky moonshine. No, you’re not hallucinating.

There are a lot of rumors and myths surrounding once-banned liquor absinthe. Seattle Kitchen host Tom Douglas had never tried it, so asked an expert to bring in some of the much-lored liquor for him ...

It's inspirational genius; it's the green fairy; it's evil in a glass. It's absinthe. If you saw the movie "Moulin Rouge," you probably noticed Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec sipping the glowing green ...

Is there any liquor with a reputation as misleading as absinthe? Sure, it may be a hip, edgy cocktail ingredient today, but not long ago it was blamed for everything from Van Gogh slicing off his ear ...

It makes everything from bourbon and gin to moonshine and absinthe — and it’s got its own chateau — so why wouldn’t Saint Lawrence Spirits win the title of New York State Distillery of the Year? In ...

Want to party like it’s 1899? Well, now you can–sort of. After nearly a century-long ban on absinthe in the U.S., a federal agency has begrudgingly allowed two European distillers to sell the ...

We did absinthe once in college. It made us mean drunks, and the assault charges have finally fallen off our record. So when we heard through the Ex last week that the Feds have legalized the green, ...

Oscar Wilde penned glorious stories of sipping absinthe in fashionable Victorian parlors. Wilde wrote: “After the first glass of absinthe you see things as you wish they were. After the second you see ...