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Obsessives: You’re Not Hallucinating
By Meredith Arthur, Eric Slatkin, and Blake Smith
It’s very simple: alcohol, wormwood, and some anise characteristics. But not simple at all: The carefully calibrated mix of aromatics and herbs that goes into the absinthe made by Lance Winters of St. George Spirits took extensive testing to get just right.
Absinthe image courtesy of the Virtual Absinthe Museum.
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Its clear this guy is "passionate" about his product. What a gift. Great to see.
Van Gogh is alive and distilling absinthe on the east coast? And was that a green oompah loompah disappearing behind a barrel? Yet another great obsessives, the close-ups of things like the absinthe fountain are really effective. Eleven out of ten green fairies!
There is a NYC restaurant called Pigalle nears Times square, which is the first place I had Absinthe....if you are ever there try the "la fee verte" (the green fairy) It is so good, I forgot that I hated all the flavors it was comprised of! Drool.....
We're serving Lance's Hot-Spiced Pear drink @ New Year's Eve. We just loved it during tastings.
Gotta give props to Lance!