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

