THE INTENTION was never to open four hotels in the span of six months. But French retail mogul Frederic Biousse is used to seeing his projects take on a Herculean dimension. "There were construction delays and permit issues, and before we knew it, they were all ready for unveiling around the same time," says the 50-year-old during a candlelit dinner on the stone terrace of Torre Vella, one of two converted fincas he and his husband, Guillaume Foucher, opened last year as intimate agritourism hotels on the southern tip of Minorca in Spain. Juggling gargantuan budgets and customer needs was familiar to Biousse, but life as a serious hotelier, winemaker, and even farmer was new territory.
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