Absinthe Explained: Myths, Facts, History & Tasting | How to Drink

Absinthe in History, the myths and lies surrounding it, and tasting the Green Fairy. Looking to pick up a bottle or two? Here’s Curiada: Absinthe has long been the subject of myth and fiction, lies and adoration. It was enormously popular during the Bell Epoque, the latter half of the 1800’s and into the early 1900’s in France, particularly Paris. It was favored by impressionists and artists, and working people, and sex workers, and the proletariate, and Bolsheviks and revolutionaries, and etc. It had none of the aristocratic trappings of wine, and so it was enjoyed by anyone who couldn’t afford to pretend to aristocracy or who flatly despised the notion of aristocrats. It was banned through a concerted effort by French wine companies to put their competition out of business, they created a moral panic surrounding the consumption of Absinthe using bogus research trumped up by a guy called Doctor Magnan. The wine companies managed t