Destilando Amor

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Destilando Amor (Distilling Love) is a Mexican telenovela produced by Nicandro Díaz González for Televisa in 2007. It is a remake of the 1994 Colombian series Café, con aroma de mujer. The show aired on Canal de las Estrellas from January 22 to September 16, 2007, and stars Angélica Rivera as Teresa Hernández “Gaviota,” with Eduardo Yáñez, Sergio Sendel, Chantal Andere, Ana Martín, Martha Julia, Alejandro Tommasi, and Ana Patricia Rojo in supporting roles. The original version has 171 episodes (170 in the international version).

Plot:
Teresa, known as Gaviota, works as a farm laborer with her mother Clara, traveling the country to harvest blue agave and returning each year to the La Montalveña tequila hacienda in Tequila, Jalisco. Don Amador Montalvo, head of the family, is near death, and after his passing his grandsons Rodrigo and Aarón contend over who will inherit the fortune. Rodrigo falls in love with Gaviota, and they plan to marry after he finishes a doctorate in London. Gaviota becomes pregnant and travels to England to find him, but is deceived by a photographer and sold to a trafficking gang, ending up in a Paris brothel. She escapes and, with help from a kind Italian man and English nuns, returns to Mexico, where she faces a harsh new world of ambition, deceit and heartache, testing her faith and love.

Destilando Amor won the TVyNovelas Award for Best Telenovela of the Year in 2008. The series is remembered for its themes of love, resilience and a young woman’s struggle against a difficult world.