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The Cavuş is a Turkish grape that's mostly eaten, but also makes excellent white wines, packed with citrus and exotic fruit. This is done on a small scale, primarily in Turkey and Greece.
In the 17th century, a sergeant of the Ottoman Empire brought back some vines of this grape for his Sultan after his pilgrimage to Mecca. The grape was subsequently named after this sergeant Cavuş in Turkish. Because the Ottomans themselves (officially) did not drink wine, it was primarily cultivated for consumption. A few winemakers in Turkey use it for their wines. The best known is the Corvus winery on the Turkish island of Bozcaada. In Greece, it is called Tsaoussi.
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