Pip: Mary Sheridan has found the cure for a Vancouver summer — and it involves 504 bottles of sparkling wine and a patio facing False Creek at Provence Marinaside.
Mara: Mary Sheridan’s latest takes us to the waterfront, where Provence Marinaside is rolling out a private-label bubbly, an expanded rosé list, and two new seasonal cocktails. Let’s start with what’s in the glass.
Provence Marinaside’s Summer Pour
Pip: Provence Marinaside is doing something specific this summer — not just a seasonal menu refresh, but a collaboration with a BC winery to produce a wine that exists nowhere else.
Mara: The context here is a partnership with Haywire Winery in Summerland. Wine Director Joshua Carlson is quoted directly on the intent: he wanted “a sparkling wine perfect for oysters, brunch, and patio afternoons.”
Pip: That framing matters — this isn’t a cellar showpiece. It’s engineered for a specific setting, a specific afternoon, and it’s priced to actually order: nineteen dollars a glass, eighty by the bottle.
Mara: The production details back that up. The wine is a Brut Nature, blending sixty-six percent Pinot Noir and thirty-four percent Chardonnay from organically farmed fruit, aged sixty-two months before disgorging in May 2026. Only 504 bottles were made.
Pip: Sixty-two months of aging for a patio pour. Respect.
Mara: The collaboration runs deeper than the wine itself. Provence owner and Executive Chef Jean-Francis Quaglia and Haywire co-founder Christine Coletta have a long friendship built through shared dinners and projects inside BC’s hospitality industry.
Town Hall Brands designed the label using colours drawn from Provence’s waterfront location.
Pip: So the bottle looks like the view. That’s a coherent idea.
Many Wines to Choose From
Mara: Beyond the sparkling wine, the summer rosé list has expanded to thirty-three wines, with twelve sparkling wines and champagnes included.
Seventeen of those rosés are available by the glass, starting at $12, featuring French benchmarks like Château Minuty and Domaines Ott alongside Canadian producers: Blue Mountain, Lakeside Cellars, Phantom Creek Estates, and Benjamin Bridge from the Okanagan and Nova Scotia.
Summer Cocktails Worth the Wait
Pip: Bar Manager Ryan Johnson also built two cocktails for the season — the Yuzu Spritz, which folds the house sparkling wine into yuzu curaçao, apricot liqueur, and lemon juice, and the Lavender Haze, which pairs Mirabeau Rosé Gin with Provence Rosé, St. Germain, and lavender. Floral without tipping into perfume, apparently.
Mara: The whole program — the wine, the rosé list, the cocktails — is built around that False Creek patio. The setting does a lot of the work, and the drinks seem designed to match it rather than compete with it.
Pip: A limited sparkling wine, thirty-three rosés, and a waterfront patio. Vancouver summers have been built on less.
Mara: It’s a strong case for drinking local and drinking well. More from Mary in Vancity next time.
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