Alcohol: Absinthe

My aunt went to France about four years ago and when she went I asked her if she could get me a bottle of absinthe (the real stuff, not the US version). She ended up getting me a bottle and put it in her basement only to not be able to find it. Fast forward to this past Mother's Day when she finally found it and gave it to me. This bottle is a decently expensive bottle of the stuff (between $40-$60), is 110 proof (55%), and infused with 1.5% wormwood (the absinthe herb). Do not confuse this bottle with the US version from France which contains no grande wormwood (however recently you can add this to it in the US and Canada). You can distinguish between the US and French version of the liquor by the "Liqueur aux Plantes d'Absinthe" seen on the top of the label (and also the descriptive text is also in French). Now this particular bottle is a Liquor because sugar has been added to it, but traditional Absinthe is a Spirit because sugar had not been added. The company that made this bottle now also makes a Absinthe that has very little sugar in it and therefore is much more bitter. It should be noted that any Absinthe you buy today in Europe contains much lower concentrations of the active ingredients thujone, fenchone, and pinocamphone due to regulations then was found in the drink in the 18th and 19th centuries (however levels of thujone recently have been found to be much lower in the original Absinthe then was once thought). I am gonna try to drink it in a few different recommended techniques and I'll let you know which style I enjoyed the most.