Warney Cellar and Tap

The list at Warney reads less like a wine program and more like a love letter to the aperitif hour — Lustau Amontillado, Pineau des Charentes, Sauternes, and a fleet of house spritzes that blur the line between cocktail menu and wine bar. This is not the place you come for a Napa Cab and a steak. It is, however, exactly the place you come when you're tired of that.

The 25 options here lean hard into fortified and aromatized wines — Lillet, Cocchi Rosa, Cappelletti, Madeira, Sherry, Port — rather than conventional still bottles, and that's a deliberate curatorial choice that deserves credit. The Lions de Suduiraut Sauternes 2020 anchors the list with some genuine prestige, and the Gilles Brisson Pineau des Charentes is the kind of obscure French countryside staple you'd be lucky to find in most major cities, let alone Scranton. The house cocktail section layers these wine-adjacent ingredients — Madeira in the 'Darks & Lights,' Sherry in the 'Thyme Traveler,' a red wine float in the NY Sour — in ways that show real intention. There are no bottles to take home and no deep cellar to speak of, but the depth within this narrow lane is genuine.

Everything here is by the glass, full stop — all 25 options pour individually, ranging from $10 to $14, which keeps the barrier low and the experimentation high. The zero-proof section is unusually strong, with Roots Divino Apéritif Blanc and a non-alcoholic riff on the 'Greenhouse' spritz sitting comfortably alongside their boozy counterparts. Rotation isn't obvious from the menu, but at these prices you can afford to try a few before landing.