Destilando Amor

Destilando Amor
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Starring	Eduardo Yanez, Angelica Rivera
Opening theme	Por Amarte by Pepe Aguilar
Country of origin	Mexico
Original language	Spanish
Production
Executive producer	Nicandro Díaz González
Running time	60 minutes
Original release
Network	Televisa, Univision
Release	Mexico January 22, 2007- September 16, 2007 United States March 26, 2007- December 3, 2007

Destilando Amor (Distilling Love) is a telenovela remake of café, con aroma de mujer.It premiered on January 22, 2007, and in the USA on March 26, 2007 taking the place of the Mexican version of Mundo de Fieras in both countries. It is a production of Nicandro Diaz and the main characters are Eduardo Yanez and Angelica Rivera, who return to the telenovelas scene after four years of absence. This serial is also known as Essence of Love.[1]

Cast

• Angelica Rivera as Teresa "Gaviota" Hernandez Garcia and Mariana Franco Villareal
• Eduardo Yáñez as Rodrigo Montalvo Santos
• Sergio Sendel as Aaron Montalvo Iturbe, cousin of Rodrigo
• Chantal Andere as Minerva Olmos de Montalvo, wife of Aaron
• Martha Julia as Isadora Duarte de Montalvo, wife of Rodrigo
• Ana Patricia Rojo as Sofia Montalvo Santos, sister of Rodrigo and Daniela
• Fernanda Castillo as Daniela Montalvo Santos, sister of Rodrigo and Sofia
• Alejandro Tommasi as Bruno Montalvo Gil, father of Aaron
• Jose Luis Resendez as Hilario Quijano, stableboy at the Hacienda, son of Roman and Ofelia
• Joana Benedek as Pamela Torreblanca, mistress of Aaron
• Carlos de la Mota as James O'Brien, former boyfriend of Sofia, friend of Rodrigo
• Julio Camejo as Francisco de la Vega, husband of Sofia, lover of Isadora, villain
• Ana Martin as Clara "Clarita" Garcia de Hernandez , mother of Gaviota
• Martha Roth as Pilar Gil de Montalvo, wife of Amador, mother of Bruno and Felipe
• Joaquin Cordero as Amador Montalvo , husband of Pilar, father of Bruno and Felipe
• Julio Aleman as Roberto Avellaneda, president of the Consejo Regulador del Tequila
• Irma Lozano as Constanza Santos de Montalvo , wife of Felpe, mother of Rodrigo,Sofia, and Daniela
• Olivia Bucio as Fedra Iturbe de Montalvo, wife of Bruno, villain
• Gustavo Rojo as Nestor Videgaray, lawyer of the family
• Jorge Vargas as Felipe Montalvo, husband of Constanza, father of Rodrigo, Sofia, and Daniela
• Jan aka Gustavo Cardenas Avila as Patricio Iturbe Solorzano, cousin of Aaron
• Silvia Ramirez as Lluvia, girlfriend of Patricio
• Yuliana Peniche as Margarita, receptionist at the Corporativo
• Roberto Vander as Ricardo Duarte, father of Isadora
• Norma Lazareno as Nuria Toledo de Duarte, mother of Isadora
• Mariana Rios as Sanjuana, worker at the Hacienda
• Jaime Garza as Roman, overseer at the Hacienda
• Maria Prado as Dona Jose, mother of Francisco
• Adriana Laffan as Ofelia, cook at the Hacienda
• Patricia Manterola as Erika Robledo, psychologist
• Rene Strickler as Alonso Santoveña, director of the Public Relations of the CRT
• Gabriela Goldsmith as Cassandra, cousin of Alonso
• Theo Tapia as Gaspar Torreblanca, father of Pamela
• Alicia Encinas as Barbara Torreblanca, mother of Pamela
• Laura Flores as Priscilla
• Alma Muriel
• Nora Salinas as Karen
• Manuel Landeta
• Marco Uriel as Olavarria
• Juan Pelaez
• Fernando De la Flor

Brief summary about the novela

• The story begins in the fields of Jalisco, where the harvesting of the agaves takes place each year. workers Teresa "Gaviota" Hernandez and Clarita Hernandez go on the bus from Guadalajara to Tequila and from there, go to La Montalveña Hacienda, property of Amador Montalvo.
• At the same time, Amador comes to Tequila with his wife Pilar. The patriarch of the Montalvo family has a feeling he will die, but his wife tells him it is nonsense. While his son Felipe and his wife Constanza are visiting, Amador is dying, and he tells the overseer of the Hacienda Roman, to not leave Gaviota and Clarita without work.
• Meanwhile, most of the family is overseas. Bruno, son of Amador and Pilar, and his wife Fedra, are in New York City managing the headquarters of the Montalvo Corporation. Rodrigo, Aaron, and Sofia are living in London (Sofia is living with James O'Brien), and Daniela is in Paris studying dance. The four get calls from the rest of the family saying Amador is dying, so they leave what they are doing and leave at once.
• Amador dies, and the funeral is held the next day. At the mass that is held for him, Gaviota leaves some flowers at the coffin, and Rodrigo goes to the front and pray at the same time as Gaviota. That is how the two first meet.
• Gaviota and Rodrigo begin meeting each other, and Rodrigo tells Gaviota that he will have to go to London and keep on studying for a doctorate at Cambridge University. The day before Rodrigo has to go, he and Gaviota go into the agave fields and make love.
• After Rodrigo leaves, Gaviota finds out she is pregnant. So she goes with this photographer who has been bothering her every year she comes to take pictures as a model and send her to Paris. Gaviota accepts, and in the end, goes to Paris with Madame Colette (Rebecca Mankita). At her arrival at Paris, Gaviota finds out she was tricked, and finds out she was sent to work as a prostitute.
• Gaviota escapes, and since she hasn't eaten food, she faints in front of a restaurant. Benvenutto Verducci, the owner of the restaurant, helps her and gives her money to go to London. At her arrival, Gaviota searches for Rodrigo, until she sees him at the corner of a street. Excited, she crosses the street without looking, and she ends up being run over very grotesquely by a car. Rodrigo sees the accident, and he goes for a closer look, but he doesn't see who it is because he gets a call from his uncle Bruno saying that his parents, Constanza and Felipe, died in a plane accident at Toluca International.

Other facts about the novela

• The novela had enjoyed high ratings in Mexico, when it was transmitted on Channel 2 of Televisa at the premiere slot at 9:30 P.M. local time.
• In the United States and Puerto Rico, it is transmitted on Univision at 9:00 P.M. Eastern Time. And at 8:00 P.M. Central Time.
• It is shown in Canada on TLN at 6:00 P.M. (EST)
• The novela is shown in Venezuela through Venevision Mondays through Saturdays at 1:00 P.M.
• The novela was also shown in Brazil through SBT, but it was cancelled in April due to low ratings.
• According to the Spanish article, the novela is shown in Panama on Telemetro Channel 13 at 7:00 P.M. and is the highest rating telenovela in the 2007 season.
• In Mexico, a CD containing the soundtrack of the novela was released to the market. It contains the songs Por Amarte by Pepe Aguilar and Gaviota, by Angelica Rivera.
• The best novela of the year- Premios TVyNovelas 2008

Broadcasters

Country	Alternate title/Translation	TV Network(s)	Series Premiere	Weekly Schedule
Mexico	Destilando Amor	Canal de Las Estrellas (XEW-TV) (Televisa)	January 22 2007	Monday to Friday 9.30 p.m
United States	Destilando Amor	Univision	March 26 2007	Monday to Friday 9.00 p.m (Eastern Time)
Puerto Rico	Destilando Amor	WLII	August 2007	Monday to Friday 9.00 p.m (Atlantic Time)
Canada	Destilando Amor	TLN		Monday to Friday 6.00 p.m
Romania	Tequila cu suflet de femeie	Acasa		Monday to Friday 7.00 p.m
Slovenia	Čista ljubezen	TV3 Slovenia	October 10 2007	Monday to Friday 1.35 p.m
Spain	Destilando Amor	TVE		Monday to Friday 3.50pm
Brazil	Destilando Amor	SBT		Monday to Friday 6.15 p.m
Serbia	Opijeni ljubavlju	RTV Pink	June 2007	Monday to Friday 6.00 p.m
Israel	שיכורה מאהבה	Viva Channel	October 29 2007	Sunday to Thursday 8.50 p.m
Latvia	Mīlestība un Tekila	LNT	February 6 2008	Monday to Friday 4.35 p.m
Montenegro	Opijeni ljubavlju	Pink M	June 2007	Monday to Friday 6.00 p.m
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Opijeni ljubavlju	Pink BH	June 2007	Monday to Friday 6.00 p.m
Macedonia	Опиени од љубов	Сител тв	March 2008	Monday to Friday 9.00 a.m
Croatia	Destilirajući ljubav	Nova TV	announced	TBD

External links

• Destilando amor at IMDb
• Destilando amor official website
• Destilando amor Univision page