Anne Barbour's "A Dedicated Scoundrel"

A Dedicated Scoundrel - Anne Barbour

Cripes, I couldn't get past the 2 obvious mistakes on the very first page of this book:

1. A Spanish woman would never refer to a man as "querida" which is the feminine form. She would use "querido" instead. Is Ann Barbour illiterate about language genders?

2. Spaniards do not drink grappa (which is Italian), they drink orujo.

If it had been just one error, I would have carried on, but 2 mistakes on the very first page of the book is too much.