Getting to Know Absinthia Vermut & Her Two Modern Absinthe Fairies

Absinthia Vermut sounds like the name of some sort of fairy you’d encounter after several glasses of her namesake spirit. But she’s an actual person. With green eyes, a nymphlike smile and the last name that’s German for “wormwood” — the herb at the center of absinthe’s pungent, medicinal flavor (and supposed hallucinogenic effects) — fate seems to have chosen her to bring the green liquid properly back into the American palate despite a century’s worth of baggage.