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 to 8 p.m. on the second Friday of each month.

The per-person cost is $30 and $25 for wine studio club members. Reservations are required.

Dec. 12 will feature Lake County Tempranillos and a winter warm up menu.

The aperitif will be a taste of Lavender Blue Petite Sirah with spicy holiday party mix.

The salad course will be warmed greens with roasted tomato, bacon and aged goat cheese paired with Red Lava Tempranillo, followed by Portobello mushroom stuffed with Spanish picada and Iberico cheese paired with Tejada Tempranillo.

The third course will be flatbread with roasted red bell peppers, sweet onion, eggplant and smoked paprika with Manchego cheese paired with Don Angel Cellars Tempranillo. The sweet ending with be chocolate almond bark.

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

Lake County Wine Studio is both a gallery for display of arts and a tasting room, wine bar and retail shop for the fine wines of Lake County.

Artists' shows are held on a monthly basis with art and wine receptions held the first Friday and subsequent Saturday of each month except January.

The gallery is located at 9505 Main St. in Upper Lake. It is open Mondays, 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.; Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays from 1 to 7 p.m.; and Fridays from 1 to 8 p.m.

The art show on display for the months of December and January is woven tapestries by Sheila O'Hara.

Holiday closures are Dec. 25 and 31, and Jan. 1 to 15.

For more information call Lake County Wine Studio at 707-275-8030.