POSH at the Scranton Club

The wine list at POSH reads like someone raided a mid-tier grocery store with decent taste — recognizable names, safe choices, nothing that's going to make you lean across the table and whisper 'you have to try this.' That said, the room is a historic Scranton club and the menu is ambitious enough to deserve better wine backup. What saves the whole experience is one glorious, hard-to-argue-with fact: Wednesday nights, every bottle is half off.

The list clocks in around 25-35 wines and leans heavily on California with some Pacific Northwest, Italian, Provençal rosé, and a few southern hemisphere wildcards thrown in for variety points. You've got Josh and Sean Minor showing up alongside Spy Valley and Chalk Hill — it's a list that's trying to appeal to everyone and as a result surprises nobody. There's genuine range across regions, but the depth within any single one is thin; don't come here looking for a second Burgundy to compare against the first. The Stellenrust Sauvignon Blanc from South Africa and the Jean-Luc Colombo Provence Rosé are the most interesting picks on a list that otherwise plays it very safe.

Eight to ten pours available by the glass, priced mostly at $9-$10, which is approachable but not thrilling when the bottles underneath that are averaging 3-4x retail markup. The glass program covers the bases — a white, a couple reds, rosé — but rotation doesn't appear to be a priority. If you're ordering by the glass on a non-Wednesday, you're paying for convenience more than quality.