Coorinja Vineyard or Coorinja Winery is an Australian winery at Coorinja (previously known as Seven Springs), 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) south of Toodyay, Western Australia, in the Central Western Australia wine zone.[1][2] It was established in 1889 by Harry Fryer Smith, Henry Page Woodward, and John Leslie Sinclair, with 32 planted acres (13 ha) in pinot noir and shiraz.[3][4][5][6] Sinclair left the partnership in 1890.[7] Coorinja Vineyard Company was trademarked in 1893.[8] It is one of the oldest extant vineyards in the state.[9] The name is an Aboriginal word believed to mean "place of the seven springs".[10]
The winery was described as "a fortified haven" by Michael Zekulich, former wine writer for The West Australian.[11] Coorinja produces table and fortified wines including shiraz, grenache, cabernet-shiraz, port, sherry, muscat, liqueur muscat, ginger wine and marsala.[10]
The Coorinja vineyard has been owned by the Wood family since 1919.[12] The family also runs a cropping and sheep operation on the property.[13]
^Adams, Tate (2006). The First Vines. South Yarra, Vic: Macmillan Art Publishing; St Lucia, Qld: The State Library of Queensland. p. 74. ISBN1876832290.
