red grape · regional specialty
Trepat
Conca de Barberà, Catalonia, Spain
Say it
treh·pat
Catalan; unstressed first syllable is a schwa; final -t is fully pronounced
On the palate
strawberryraspberryred cherrycranberrycinnamonblack pepper
How you spot it blind: Exceptionally pale red; low tannin, low alcohol, piercing red fruit
The story
VIVC DNA confirms Trepat is a cross of Heben and an unknown parent; pre-phylloxera it covered roughly one-third of all vineyard land in Conca de Barberà before marginalisation reduced it to a Cava blending grape.
Family tree: HEBEN × ?
Where it lives
Conca de Barberà · Costers del Segre
Shows up as
still redrosésparkling