Absinthe became popular during France’s Belle-Epoque period in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This also was the time of the decimation of France’s wine industry by the phylloxera pest. As an ...

Artists and Illustrators reports that famous painters of the time, such as Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Toulouse Lautrec, partook in "green hour," an hour of the day devoted to absinthe ...

Few drinks have a reputation like absinthe. Banned in some countries for almost a century, the drink was supposedly a source of madness and crime, even blamed for artist Vincent van Gogh chopping ...

Silence has surrounded absinthe for almost a century, after it was banned. Nowadays it seems to be coming back in style, while most countries in the EU have lifted the ban on absinthe again.