It’s Halloween next Thursday so today on movies and booze we’ll be discussing and taste testing a scarey white and a monster wine. The most widely available wine with an appropriate themed name is Concha Y Toro’s Casillero del Diablo, translated as the Devil’s Cellar.

However we’ll be tasting a couple of more special wines from thecorkscrew.ie.

First of them is Dr Deinhard Forster Riesling UK Trocken 2012 at €21.95. Nothing scary there you might think but the UK isn’t a reference to our big neighbour but is shorthand for Ungeheuer Kabinett. Ungeheuer is the name of a grand cru vineyard in the Pfalz region and translates as monster in German. Search the term in google images for an amazing array of pictures. Kabinett is a term designating the wine’s quality level and Trocken means it’s dry.

Dr Deinhard is part of the same company as the Von Winning label that thecorkscrew.ie stock too and they have this wine’s big brother Von Winning Ungeheuer Riesling which costs €39.95, reflecting the fact that it gets first choice of the grapes from this grand cru vineyard.

The red tasted on the show today is Radford Dale Frankenstein Pinotage 2012 from Stellenbosch in South Africa from thecorkscrew.ie at €34.95. The Frankenstein character was of course assembled from mismatched donor parts. The pinotage variety was created in a lab too in the 1920s in South Africa a crossing of Pinot Noir and Cinsault of Hermitage, as it was known locally then and hence the name Pinot-age. The name is winemaker Alex Dale’s humorous nod to the unlikely coming together of different parts in this vine.

Thecorkscrew.ie are in Chatham St, D2 and also in Lucan at The Corkscrew @ Kenny’s Off Licence. They have a wine warehouse too at Unit 57 KCR Business Park, Ravensdale Park, Dublin 12. Tel. 01 499 1743.

Martin Moran MW, @winerepublic on twitter.