When absinthe was a clandestine affair

Looking back at the history of absinthe in its birthplace, the Val-de-Travers, in the French-speaking canton of Neuchâtel, reveals that distillers have been playing a 50-year-long game of hide and seek. (RTS, swissinfo.ch)

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