Destilando Amor

Teresa Hernández (Angélica Rivera), whom everyone calls Gaviota, is a farm laborer who travels the country with her mother, Clara (Ana Martín), working the harvest. Every year, they return to Tequila, Jalisco for the reaping of the blue agave at the La Montalveña hacienda, owned by Don Amador (Joaquín Cordero), the patriarch of the Montalvos, a family with a long history of tequila production. At the beginning of the story, Don Amador knows his end is near and arrives to spend his final days in the land he so much loves.

When Don Amador dies, his family gathers for his funeral. His grandsons, Rodrigo (Eduardo Yáñez) and his cousin Aarón (Sergio Sendel), travel from London, where they are studying for a doctorate. The cousins grew up as brothers, but their grandfather's will awakens Aarón's ambition, as control of the family fortune will ultimately fall to the first son fathered by one of them. Aarón feels confident, knowing that Rodrigo has never been able to make love; however, Gaviota's arrival in his life will change Rodrigo's destiny.

Upon meeting, Rodrigo and Gaviota feel the disturbing call of love for the first time; awakening a passion that dominates them and they both give themselves completely. Rodrigo promises Gaviota that he will return in a year when he finishes his doctorate to marry her. Shortly after, Gaviota discovers she is pregnant. Unaware of the size of the world, she decides to go to England to find Rodrigo. Tricked by a local photographer who promises her help, Gaviota falls into the hands of a gang of white slavers who send her to a brothel in Paris.

Gaviota escapes and begins her pilgrimage in search of the man she loves. Alone, without knowing the language, only her faith and her great love will sustain her in the worst of times. Aided by a generous Italian man and a group of English nuns, she returns to Mexico to find a life very different from the one she left behind; a life of pain and disappointment. A life in the big city, where ambition, resentment, and lies reign; a life that could turn to stone the innocent heart that began that fateful journey... Distilling Love.

• Angélica Rivera as Teresa Hernández García "Gaviota" / Mariana Franco Villarreal
• Eduardo Yáñez as Rodrigo Montalvo Santos
• Sergio Sendel as Aarón Montalvo Iturbe
• Chantal Andere as Minerva Olmos
• Ana Martín as Clara "Clarita" Hernández García
• Martha Julia as Isadora Duarte Toledo
• Alejandro Tommasi as Bruno Montalvo Gil
• Ana Patricia Rojo as Sofía Montalvo Santos

The original motion picture soundtrack of the telenovela was released on April 3, 2007 by EMI Latin.

Track listing

1. "Por amarte (Tema de la telenovela Destilando amor)" - Pepe Aguilar
2. "Gaviota" - Gaviota
3. "La campirana (Rolitacampirana 4)"
4. "Llegando a ti" - Gaviota
5. "Esos Altos de Jalisco" - Gaviota
6. "Campo abierto (Rolitacampirana 3)"
7. "Esta triste guitarra" - Pepe Aguilar
8. "Penas del alma" - Gaviota
9. "Enamorándonos (0707DESVOXP1)"
10. "Cielo rojo" - Pepe Aguilar
11. "Música del campo (Rolitacampirana 1)"
12. "Corazoncito tirano" - Gaviota
13. "Échame a mí la culpa" - Pepe Aguilar
14. "Luz de luna" - Gaviota
15. "Ilusión de amarte (0107DESVOXP1)"
16. "El impedimento (1207DESORQS1)"
17. "Poder y soberbia (2007DESORQS1)"
18. "Gaviota (Versión Jalisciense)" - Gaviota

Below is a listing of the most important awards and nominations received by the production:

• Recognition to 'Gaviota' for the international projection generated by the telenovela Destilando amor by spreading the culture of the most Mexican of beverages: tequila [Received by Angélica Rivera and Ana Martín (Date 2007)].^[11]