Our ritual involved shooting a shot of the green fairy, white-knuckling the ... Just in time for the renaissance of the drink, might I add. Back in the day, and by that I mean mid-19 th century ...

During the heady days of La Belle Epoque, La Fée Verte ('The Green Fairy') acquired a reputation ... and is enjoying a renaissance not unlike the gin revolution in the UK. Dozens of small ...

"Step back into the belle époque and beckon the green fairy: absinthe is having a renaissance," said Victoria Brzezinski in The Times. The heady spirit has been "reappearing in drinking dens" up ...