Lance Winters, an Alameda distiller, may be a hotter ticket right now than Paris Hilton on a Friday night. Reporters want him, the bar crowd adores him and he's been known to sell out the house in ...

Make way for the absinthe rush. With luck, a second California absinthe will be on shelves by October, joining several American absinthes that have appeared this year. Crispin Cain, who helped distill ...

A century ago, absinthe was banned in the U.S. and France. Now it's the hippest drink in Seattle—if you can find it. There are worse ways to spend a weekday evening than having a pseudonymous ...