Sicilian wine growers have harvested the first pinot grigio grapes earlier than ever before this year, 12 days earlier than usual, the large Settesoli wine cooperative in the west of the Italian island has announced. The cooperative in Menfi has in past years been the first in Italy to start the harvest, and last year started picking the grapes on July 30. Heat and dry conditions had led to the earlier harvest this year, Settesoli’s Filippo Buttafuoco told Italian television. “An average of 500 to 600 millitires of rain fall in Sicily each year, but since last autumn we have recorded only 250 …