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CHEF Paul Cooper has returned home to Victoria and bought Bianchet Winery in the Yarra Valley, operating two venues within the space, to accommodate casual and more formal dining rooms.

Cooper, who moved to Sydney in 2012 to open Bishop Sessa in Surry Hills returned home to Melbourne in February 2018.

The chef and his young family settled on the Yarra Valley, specifically Bianchet - which has some of the oldest vines in the Yarra Valley - and while, Cooper won’t on the other.

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