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Cellar doors: a modestly-magnificent seven

No faux chateaux or Californianesque excess here: these seven Australian wineries are grand, not grandiose.

All will almost certainly offer you a lovely location, and a warm welcome from knowledgeable, unpretentious folks.

Each has a range of genuinely-excellent wines that begin at prices well south of $30.

Three will also serve you a delicious, affordable lunch.

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Wine review: two excellent, affordable W.A. Chardonnays

Stella Bella 2014 Chardonnay and Castle Rock 2014 Diletti Chardonnay are available for circa $30 a bottle in Australia.  Respectively, from Margaret River and Porongurup, each is distinctly different. Both are clearly superior to a lot of more expensive Australian Chardonnays.

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Wine review (and temperature tip): Alkoomi 2007 Wandoo Semillon

An under-appreciated fact: many of Australia’s most cellar-worthy wines are whites.  Even the happy few who are not blind to the astonishingly-affordable delights offered by our aged Rieslings and Semillons are all too often blind to prime sources in regions other than, respectively, Clare and the Hunter Valley.

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