Real, yes. Its been legal for a few years now, but the amount of wormwood is reduced. I have some “real” stuff that was bootlegged out of Switzerland, as well as a full unopened bootle of pre ban Pernod.
In “Going Hollywood,” Bing drinks absinthe in a dive in Mexico, and sings “Temptation” to a hallucination of Fifi D’Orsay.