Btw, if you want to taste real absinth, the one that drove poets crazy, you have to know some folks in… Switzerland. Because this is the very area where the original plant grows, and most of the european production used to come from there. Many familys distillated it… and still illegally do. A friend of mine told me : in his native valley, every time you smelled a burning tire reek, it meant somebody was making absinth (because the odor of it is easily recognizable, but it fools no one !)
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