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Deadline for applications is Tuesday 18 February to attend our free art-writing course, in collaboration with Bergen Kunsthall and Office for Contemporary Art Norway. Matthew McLean: How did tequila become your passion?

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At the start of my twenties, I applied for a place to represent Mexico on a cultural programme run by the Japanese government. Part of this a six month scholarship to travel the country and learn our economy and industries, so I could talk about them with authority. One of the stops was three days in Tequila, in Jalisco, where the drink was born.

From then on, I spent a decade working for the eldest producer in the category — a family owned business, going back 11 generations. The history of tequila is, in some way, the history of that family. So it was an incredible way into the heritage. MM: And when did you break off to start your own company? BGN: A decade in, I started again to feel the pull to be an entrepreneur — that anxiety about never getting to be the person calling the shots.

I was at a party one night in Williamsburg, the anniversary of some English friends of mine, and I met this man Bob Pittman, who was one of the founders of MTV.