Absinthe Plays Devil's Advocate
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Banned across Europe and the United States in the early 1900s, absinthe is often a spirit that is associated with illicit behaviour.\\xa0
With a reputation for providing psychedelic inspiration to such creative names as Oscar Wilde, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec and Vincent Van Gogh, absinthe has always built a reputation as an incredibly naughty, but slightly dangerous green fairy of the spirit world.
Yet the reality of absinthe is very different.\\xa0
To understand a little bit more about absinthe and its place in the modern bar cart, we talked to Alison Crawbuck and Rhys Everett from the new UK absinthe brand Devil's Botany about botanicals history and why absinthe is making a slow but steady comeback.\\xa0