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Adinfern Estate

winery in Western Australia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 11, 2022
Entity authorityQ17150192 ↗
Source-derived summary

Adinfern Estate is an Australian winery at Cowaramup, in the Margaret River wine region of Western Australia. Established in 1996, it was previously a sheep farm, and before that a dairy farm.

The founders and owners of Adinfern Estate were Merv and Jan Smith.

They sold the property in 2017.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Adinfern Estate” as winery in Western Australia. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Adinfern, Estate and winery.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996, 2017—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1996. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Adinfern, Estate and winery providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Adinfern Estate”, the useful work is to connect “winery in Western Australia” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 11, 2022. The linked authority identifier is Q17150192. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1996 and 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “Adinfern Estate” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.