I CAN just imagine a game of Call My Bluff where the word Wrattonbully comes up.

So is it Frank's old naval weapon, Tim's disease of sheep or is it Sandi's Australian wine region?

I'd plump for the later, if only because I need to recommend a couple of wines from there.

To place Wrattonbully on the map, it is a region within the Limestone Coast of South Australia. In the 1990s, the terra rosa soil attracted the interest of winemakers from Coonawarra and Padthaway, where similar soils had already been planted with vines. The following 'Wrattonbullys' are new to the wine list at Morrisons.

I come across an alarming number of single varietal merlots that are the exception to the rule. They are simply better than a single varietal merlot should be. Smith and Hooper Wrattonbully Merlot 2003 might sound like a small firearm, but it has to be one of the easiest going wines you will ever drink. There's a touch of spice in the plums, berries and chocolate and it is softer than an old pair of carpet slippers.

Now where's my cardigan?

Those favouring a harder ride should try Mawson's Wrattonbully Cabernet Sauvignon 2004, with its wonderfully ripe bilberries and raspberry flavours, vanilla pod, wood smoke aromas and gum-tinglingly-tastic tannins. Named after Australian explorer Sir Douglas Mawson, the wine spends a year in oak.

Closer to home than the Wrattonbully region of South Australia, is Marston Moor Business Park where, at the offices of Pagendam Pratt, I suspect the corks are still popping.

The restaurant wine supplier has just been named the International Wine Challenge Ontrade Supplier Of The Year 2006. This is the second win in three years for the 40-strong workforce. If I were the boss, I'd treat them all to a meal at one of those restaurants and all the wine they can drink.

Congrats also to Mike Smith, of Boroughbridge Road, York, who won the Tipping's Tipples Rioja Competition and a pair of tickets for the Rioja tasting at York's Guildhall, last night.

Mike, like everyone else, knew that Rioja was not a cider producing region in Alaska but, unlike all the others, his postcard was the first to be drawn out of the Tipping's Tipples post basket.

Smith and Hooper Wrattonbully Merlot 2003, £7.99 at Morrisons 17/20.

Mawson's Wrattonbully Cabernet Sauvignon 2004, £7.99 at Morrisons 17/20.