🍇 Trepat

Trepat is a dark-berried wine grape variety from Catalonia in north-eastern Spain. The international variety catalogue VIVC gives Spain as its country of origin, and DNA markers show that one parent is the old Iberian variety Hebén; the other is unknown. It is the local variety of the Conca de Barberà designation.

Where it is permitted. Trepat is listed among the varieties of three protected designations: Conca de Barberà, Costers del Segre and Cava. The single document of Conca de Barberà calls it a local variety mentioned in publications even before phylloxera, used for rosé and red wines with a character of their own. In cava it is one of four red varieties, alongside Garnacha, Monastrell and Pinot Noir.

The variety according to VIVC. Trepat is recorded as a wine and table grape with fully formed seeds. It has 20 other names, among them Bonicaire, Trepat Negre, Trepadell, Parrel and Embolicaire. In 2008 Spain had 953 ha of it; samples are kept in four collections.

Not to be confused. Among Trepat's names VIVC also lists Tempranillo del Baron and Folle Blanche du Minervois, but it is neither Tempranillo nor Folle Blanche. The variety is sensitive to weather: for the 2026/2027 campaign the EU temporarily lowered the minimum strength of Conca de Barberà white and rosé wines from Trepat and Parellada from 10 to 9% vol.

Why it matters to you. If an EU wine label says «Trepat», the wine contains at least 85% of the variety. Look for rosé and red Conca de Barberà or rosé cava; there is also cava made from Trepat alone, such as Freixenet Trepat. The WHO reminds us that no level of alcohol is safe.