Smoked Cheddar Burger with Cherry Onion Spread - Sutter Home Family Vineyards

Ingredients

• 2 (8 ounce) sweet onions, peel and cut each onion vertically into quarters, thinly slice 7 of the quarters for the spread and chop 1 quarter for the burger mixture
• 1/4 cup Sutter Home Syrah
• 1/2 cup dried tart cherries
• 2 tsp. brown sugar
• 1/2 cup mayonnaise
• 2 lbs. ground chuck
• 8 ounces shredded Smoked Cheddar
• 2 Tbsp. Worcestershire Sauce
• 1 1/2 tsp. kosher salt
• 1/2 tsp. freshly ground black pepper
• 2 tsp. minced garlic
• 3/4 tsp. smoked paprika
• vegetable oil for the grilling rack
• 6 Kaiser rolls- split horizontally
• 6 lettuce leaves of green leaf lettuce