Season 1 • Episode 170
LatestDestilando Amor is a 2007 Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa and Nicandro Díaz. It stars Angélica Rivera and Eduardo Yáñez as the main protagonists and was set primarily in Tequila, Jalisco. It is a remake of the 1994 Colombian telenovela Café, con aroma de mujer, and was nominated for twelve Premios TVyNovelas of which it won ten including Best Telenovela of the Year.
Acting
Rivera playing twins with deliciously campy precision.
Production
Tequila country as lush character, not mere backdrop.
Writing
Fernando Gaitán's spiraling plots that somehow stick landings.
Creator
Fernando Gaitán
Angélica Rivera
Teresa Hernández García "Gaviota" / Mariana Franco Villareal
Eduardo Yáñez
Rodrigo Montalvo Santos
Chantal Andere
Minerva Olmos de Montalvo
Martha Julia
Isadora Duarte De la Vega de Montalvo
Ana Martín
Clara Hernández García
Ana Patricia Rojo
Sofía Montalvo Santos
Alejandro Tommasi
Bruno Montalvo Gil
Martha Roth
Pilar Gil viúva de Montalvo
Julio Alemán
Roberto Avellaneda
Gustavo Rojo
Néstor Videgaray
René Strickler
Dr. Alonso Santoveña
Patricia Manterola
Erika Robledo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This telenovela helped revive Jalisco's tequila tourism; the Montalvo mansion became a pilgrimage site for fans.
Rivera married Mexico's future president Enrique Peña Nieto during filming — life imitated art's class-crossing romance.
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