LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Lake County Wine Studio (LCWS) is hosting a wine tasting event featuring wines from Olof Cellars with winemaker and proprietors Eric and Cindi Olof, and artist reception with a group showing by the Cobb Mountain Artists on March 2, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., and March 3, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Musical guest during the Friday evening reception will be acoustic guitarist Travis Rinker and on Saturday will be MAJIDE! with Paul Kemp on keyboard and vocals by Machiko.

Erik and Cindi Olof started St. Olof’s Vineyards by planting the first of their vines in Big Valley in the year 2000.

St. Olof wine grape crops have sold to popular and award-winning wineries and winemakers in both Napa and Lake Counties in the past decade, with the most recent awards being presented to both Carruth Cellars and Lavender Blue for wines made with St. Olof Malbec and Nebbiolo grapes.

This year marks the commercial release of Olof Cellar vintages available for tasting and sale at Lake County Wine Studio.

The $12.50 wine sampler with paired appetizers will feature 2009 Chardonnay with a salad of quinoa and butternut squash on endive, 2010 Rosato d’ Barbera with options of cannellini and red chard dip and/or smoked salmon yogurt dip with vegetable crudités and crackers and/or chocolate covered brie bites, 2009 Nebbiolo with stuffed Crimini mushrooms, and 2009 Barbera with Italian meatballs in tomato sauce.

Artist’s receptions and works on display for the month of March features members of Cobb Mountain Artists (CMA) with works from their Life Drawing series ‘Celebrating the Human Form.’   CMA was formed in 2004 as a cooperative association, open to artists and craftspeople of all skill levels to support members with mutual support, education and encouragement toward attaining excellence and to foster an appreciation of that excellence in the community.

Member artists participating in this showing are Glenneth Lambert, Jane MacLean, Marcie Ann Long, Alana Clearlake, Judith Loveless, Dawn Griffith, Sharon Lewis, Isha Jane Thanx, Odile Marcie Epps,   Lisa Kaplan, Karen Madnuson, K. Nikka Deacon and Phyllis Thiessen.

Lake County Wine Studio is located on the corner of First and Main Streets in Historic Upper Lake across from the famous Tallman Hotel and Blue Wing Saloon & Café.

For more information, call Susan Feiler at 707-293-8752.