Absinthe is a spirit made from distilling a combination of wormwood, green anise and fennel. The resulting drink is known for ...

It’s flavoured with a complex blend of herbs, the most notable being the ‘holy trinity’ of green anise, fennel and wormwood (Artemisia absinthium). The myth that absinthe causes ...

"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 ...