Pelite is a soil type described by Tom Stevenson (2011) as a ‘fine-grained clayey-quartz sedimentary rock found in [the] Banyuls [region of Roussillon in France].’

Bibliography

Tom Stevenson (2011) The Sotheby’s Wine Encyclopedia 5th Edition by Tom Stevenson (Dorling Kindersley, 2011), p.17-19.