Death in the Afternoon
Pour absinthe in a Champagne glass. Fill with chilled Champagne.
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The Death in the Afternoon was invented by Ernest Hemingway, who entered the drink into a collection of celebrity drink recipes. His directions for making the drink:
Pour one jigger absinthe into a Champagne glass. Add iced Champagne until it attains the proper opalescent milkiness. Drink three to five of these slowly.
This is quite a striking drink. Absinthe is very strong, and drinking three to five of these (even slowly) will quite likely knock you on your ass. Hemingway was one hell of a drinker. A modern (and inauthentic) version of this recipe usually has Pernod or some other pastis in place of absinthe. I say stick with the absinthe and just drinker fewer of them.
If you're somewhere where they have real absinthe, try it in this drink.