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March 12, 2004/Adar 19 5764, Vol. 56, No. 25
Family history
LEISAH NAMM
Managing Editor
The Schapiro family celebrates Ross Nemeth's first birthday under a photograph of his great-great-grandfather's winery. Pictured are Bari and Andrew Nemeth with their children Elysha and Ross. Bari holds a bottle of Schapiro's Extra Heavy Concord Grape Wine and Elysha holds a copy of the family photograph that was in the winery's window.
Photo courtesy of Andrew Nemeth
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To one Scottsdale family, a black and white photograph on the wall of Leo's Deli is more than décor.
In the backroom of the Scottsdale restaurant hangs a photograph of a winery started by Andrew Nemeth's great-grandfather, Sam Schapiro, more than 100 years ago. On Feb. 15, three generations of the Nemeth family celebrated the first birthday of Ross Nemeth under the photograph of his great-great-grandfather's winery.
Nemeth's mother-in-law noticed the photograph in December while at a Leo's Deli Breakfast Babies playgroup with her daughter Bari and grandson Ross.
"I had been there three or four times and I had just never noticed it," Bari Nemeth says. "Once we saw it ...we were all excited."
After emigrating from Poland to New York, Sam Schapiro opened a restaurant and winery in 1899, says Andrew Nemeth. He opened Schapiro's House of Kosher Wines in 1907 on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
Last year, the winery moved to Monticello, N.Y., with a retail location in the Essex Street Market, a large indoor market that has about 24 vendors. Norman Schapiro, Sam Schapiro's grandson, currently runs the winery, which produces 32 varieties of wine.
At Ross' birthday celebration, his mother made a toast to family and friends who supported them through a difficult year - a toast made with wine from Schapiro's Kosher Winery, of course.
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