You can likely find absinthe at your local liquor store or you can shop online at Total Wine. You might be able to score a bottle in your grocery store’s alcohol aisle, but you’ll find a wider ...

What wine remained in shops and cafes became shockingly priced. Mon Dieu! France needed another drink. Rescue came in the form of absinthe, an alleged cure-all developed in 18th-century Switzerland.

Absinthe manufacturers found themselves beset not only by doctors and politicians, but also by the powerful wine industry, which felt threatened by absinthe's success. The wine industry had a much ...

Though absinthe is the noted spirit, the wine also pours freely, supplementing a board of bistro food — cheese, foie gras and crepes — that's perfect for sharing between a group of girlfriends ...

The plant has been known since antiquity for its medicinal virtues. The Romans already knew of an absinthe wine, with green anise, fennel and grand wormwood, among the main ingredients of today ...

Absinthe is a spirit made from distilling a ... drank something called “absinthites oinos”, a wormwood-flavoured wine. It’s not until Switzerland in the late 18th century that the current ...