40 | JANUARY 26 • 2023
NOSH
EATS | DRINKS | SWEETS
I
f Michigan-made sweet kosher wine
pleases your palate, thank Alicia
and David Nelson for making it
available.
Alicia discovered Sholom, a kosher
sweet Concord wine, soon after her
husband retired as rabbi of Congregation
Beth Shalom in 2003.
In retirement, Rabbi Nelson officiated
several times a month at Temple Israel
in Bay City (now merged with Temple
Beth El of Saginaw to be Temple Beth
Israel). The congregation used Sholom
wine at the after-service kiddush. The
Nelsons liked the taste, and they liked
the fact that it was Michigan-made.
Working with a drugstore in Oak Park,
the Nelsons would buy a case several
times a year.
The Nelsons were nonplussed when
the store told them a year or so ago that
Sholom wine was no longer available.
The wine had been produced by St.
Julian Wine Company in Paw Paw,
Michigan, a town the Nelsons pass
through frequently as they drive I-94
Home-Grown
Wine
Kosher wine is
again made in
Michigan.
BARBARA LEWIS CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Rabbi David and
Alicia Nelson
PHOTO BY BARBARA LEWIS
COURTESY OF ST. JULIAN