title: Abraham Izak Perold
text: Abraham Izak Perold, Ph.D. (20 October 1880 – 11 December 1941) was a South African chemist and viticulturist. Educated in South Africa and Germany, Perold is best known for developing the Pinotage grape variety in 1925 through crossing Pinot noir and Cinsault. Dr. Perold also introduced 177 grape varieties into South Africa and became the first Professor of Viticulture at the University of Stellenbosch, later becoming Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture at the university.
  
  See also
  South African wine
  List of wine personalities
  
  References
  
  External links
   
   Short biography
  
  Viticulturists
  1880 births
  1941 deaths