UPPER LAKE, Calif. – Shannon Michele of Cache Creek Catering and Lake County Wine Studio are presenting a monthly food and wine series featuring gourmet appetizers paired with select Lake County wines. Locally produced foods are proudly featured as key ingredients in recipes created by Cache Creek Catering.

The series is held from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. on the second Friday of each month. The per person cost is $25 and $20 for Wine Studio club members. Reservations are required.

October 11 will feature a vegetarian menu and Merlots.

The opening course will pair Bell Hill Vineyards Merlot with a salad of seasonal greens with olive tapenade dressing and zucchini Parmesan risotto fritters, followed by eggplant rollatini with Yerba Santa Chèvre and aged goat cheese in a roasted tomato sauce served with Glamazon Merlot from Robinson Lake Vineyard.

The final course will be fresh fig with Cambozola and sweet spicy Livermore walnuts served with Lavender Blue Tawny Port.

September’s event featured a harvest menu pairing a salad of star crimson pears and heirloom apples on seasonal greens topped with bacon vinaigrette with Wildhurst Chardonnay, butternut squash raviolis in sage butter and roasted bosc pears with Cache Creek Vineyards Chardonnay, and concluded with a dessert pairing of a Bartlett pear sorbet with Thorn Hill Cuvée de Prestige sparkling wine.

Nov. 8 will be the next date to follow for the Local Cuisine Scene event.

For reservations and additional information, contact Susan Feiler at 707-293-8752.