As with every variety of alcoholic spirit, it should hardly come as a surprise that absinthe has its own national holiday.

Last week, we posted a blog series on absinthe that included pointers on how to distill absinthe and how to make absinthe from kits. Some readers expressed kit absinthe is not “real” absinthe, with ...

The Green Fairy returns—this time in The Volunteer State.

Evan Rail’s “The Absinthe Forger” takes the reader on a picaresque tour through the world of vintage alcohol collectors in pursuit of a fraudster. By J. D. Biersdorfer J.D. Biersdorfer is the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oscar Wilde relaxing on chair with a cane and gloves in his hand - Bettmann/Getty Images The late Victorian-era author Oscar Wilde ...

Reader Bites celebrates dishes, drinks, and atmospheres from the Chicagoland food scene. Explore all of our favorites at chicagoreader.com/food/reader-bites. The ...

The W South Beach’s Living Room bar has a new bottle on the menu. It’s called fenom, and it’s a modern day absinthe bottled and distilled in France. The traditional form of the liquor is green, ...

From roughly 1860 to 1890, French wine drinkers were under assault. A blight called phylloxera had nearly decimated the country’s vineyards and the nation’s wine industry. What wine remained in shops ...