I hope my parents aren’t reading this, but I used to get deeply trolleyed on absinthe during my year abroad in Spain. My friends and I would basically take over a bar called ‘La Chupiteria’, dedicated ...

As the (over-age adults of the) world celebrate International Absinthe Day, we’re taking a look at the history and present popularity of the emerald-coloured drink.

"Step back into the belle époque and beckon the green fairy: absinthe is having a renaissance," said Victoria Brzezinski in The Times. The heady spirit has been "reappearing in drinking dens" up ...

The Romans already knew of an absinthe wine, with green anise, fennel and grand wormwood, among the main ingredients of today’s Green Fairy. For Blaise Mulhauser, a PGI (Protected Geographical ...

A story about the history and evolution of absinthe, from 1730 to 1915. The Green Fairy will take you on one hell of a trippy ride through time as it details not just the history of the notorious ...

Our ritual involved shooting a shot of the green fairy, white-knuckling the bar ... have an entirely new and mature relationship with absinthe, after many years of estrangement.