Dagon Jar Snr Bordeaux Blend
The Dagon Jar Senior is a red wine from Romania produced in a Bordeaux style. If you know Bordeaux, this is the younger, fruitier and less tired cousin. Think big flavours of jammy plum and mouth watering acidity. Benefits from half an hour in a decanter but works perfectly with its paired dish straight out of the bottle. This bottle is such a great starting point if you’re looking to venture outside your normal French choices and proof that good wine can be found anywhere.
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Stats
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Colour > Red
Producer > Dagon Clan
Country > Romania
Region > Dealu Mare
Vintage > 2016
Grapes > Cabernet Sauvignon
Farming > Organic
ABV > 13.5%
Size > 750ml
Serve
Our top tips to get the most out of this bottle
🌡️ > Serve at room temperature
🍷 > Benefits from half an hour decanted
😋 > Flavours of jammy black fruit, plum, blackberry
🍕 > Try with chicken katsu
🥳 > An easy going alternative to the big Bordeauxs you may know
📅 > Best enjoyed 2021-2023
Eat
Try the recipe we created to pair perfectly with this wine
Ingredients
For the sliders
500g beef mince
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon of black pepper
1 teaspoon garlic powder
Processed cheese slices
2 x Tomato’s
For the Chimmichurri
2 x garlic clove
1 red chilli
1 teaspoon of oregano
1 teaspoon red wine vinegar
Generous squeeze of lemon
25g pack of parsley
Olive oil
Method
Starting with the sliders, place the beef mince into a big bowl, add the salt, black pepper and garlic powder and mix through with your hands, smoothing out the mince.
Roll into patties into golf size balls and flatten the top slightly.
Pour a glug of olive oil into a frying pan, once it’s heated through place the patties in the pan flattening the tops with a spatula. After around 2 minutes flip them over and cook on the other for at least another 2 minutes (or until cooked through), then place your cheese slices on top of each patty until it’s melted. Remove from the pan to cool.
To make your chimichurri finely chop the parsley, chilli and and garlic and put into a bowl with the oregano. Add enough olive oil to coat and create texture, then add the lemon, red wine vinegar and a very generous sprinkle of sea salt to taste and mix together.
Slice your tomato.
Now to assemble… onto of each patty place a slice of tomato and a generous dollop of Chimmichurri – delicious! We held ours together with a bamboo skewer.