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.

The Feb. 13 event will offer a sweet/savory menu featuring Cabernet Sauvignons with chocolate.

The first course will pair Fults Family 2011 Cabernet with a salad of winter greens, fresh pomegranate, avocado and blood orange/cocoa nib dressing, followed by a fennel/cocoa nib rubbed beef and mushroom skewer with roasted vegetable couscous paired with Moore Family Winery 2009 Black Dog Red Hills Cabernet.

The dessert course will be a dark chocolate torte paired with Eden Crest Vineyards 2004 vintage port of Cabernet.

For reservations and additional information, contact Susan Feiler at 707-293-8752.
 
Lake County Wine Studio, located at 9505 Main St. in Upper Lake, 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 in January.
 
The gallery is open Mondays, 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.; Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays from 1 to 7 p.m.; and Fridays, 1 to 8 p.m.

The art show on display for the month of February is paintings by Carolyn Hawley.

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