After the Blogger Beach Cleanup, enjoy free yummy appetizers while drinking eco-friendly wines for a cause at Pourtal Wine Tasting Bar!

Pourtal’s an eco-thinking wine bar that prides itself on its organic and natural wine selection — and serves appetizers made with farmers’ market produce and organic ingredients. The wine bar’s space itself’s green too, featuring recycled glass countertops, dual flush toilets, and all manner of cool eco-features that green building enthusiasts will be able to pick out.

But you won’t need to be a LEED-certified consultant to enjoy Pourtal’s selection of wines. Green imbibers will be happy to know that they can try one-ounce tastes of 40 different wines! Some of these ounces cost as little as $1.40, but even a taste of high-end wines will be finally affordable for frugal wine aficionados who wouldn’t have been able to afford a whole glass, let alone a bottle.

And on Oct. 24, Pourtal will welcome Blogger Beach Cleanup volunteers for a post-cleanup happy hour! Complimentary flatbreads, tater tots and hummus platters will be served from 5:30 pm – 6 pm as a reward for your eco-efforts. Plus, Pourtal will donate 15% of all sales from the tasting machines from 4 pm to 7 pm to Heal the Bay!

There, try the certified organic wines from Alma Rosa Winery — two of which will be on the tasting machines for you to try. If you like them, RSVP while you’re there for an event featuring Alma Rosa Winery happening at Pourtal on Monday, Nov. 9 at 7 pm (free admission; wine flat cost TBD).

Want to save money on your bar bill? Bring in some used bags — not the flimsy grocery store stuff, but the sturdier shopping bags capable of carrying 2 wine bottles that you may have amassed on those hopefully rare occasions when you forgot to take your own. Those bags’ll be reused by Pourtal to serve customers who’ve also forgotten to bring their own, thereby promoting reuse despite everyone’s forgetfulness. Each bag will get you a 1% discount on your bill (max 10%). Pourtal will reject bags if they seem eco-fishy (i.e. if you bring in multiple bags from the same store) — so be eco-good and don’t try to game the system!

Getting to Pourtal from the Blogger Beach Cleanup’s easy — especially for cyclists, who can simply bike up the path or Ocean until they hit Santa Monica, then pedal a block inland. Walkers and carpoolers can simply hop on the Tide Ride, which comes around every 15 minutes, a block inland at Ocean Park and Barnard — then hop off at Santa Monica and Fourth and walk 2 blocks towards the beach. We’ll have Tide Ride maps available at the cleanup, though the directions are so simple you likely won’t need them.

So sign up now to join the Blogger Beach Cleanup! There’ll be thirst-quenching drinks and snacks at the cleanup itself too — and the first 25 volunteers to get to the cleanup will get free Envirosax totes!

Pourtal Wine Tasting Bar. 104 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica. 310.393.7693.

Photos by Caroline on Crack via Flickr

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