Real Estate
Look Inside the $24 Million Mansion That Cafe Bustelo Built
Jose Enrique Souto, heir to the Rowland Coffee fortune, built his dream house. Four years later, he’s selling it.
In 1961, Jose Enrique Souto informally entered his family’s coffee business. Having emigrated from Cuba a year earlier, he found that “there wasn’t a lot of money to start the business here, and we had to do it in a very humble way,” Souto says. “I helped my dad sell door to door.”
After graduating from the university of Miami in 1965, he worked in other industries and then rejoined the business, Rowland Coffee Roasters, in 1973. Over the years, Souto, his father, and two brothers grew the company, which included the brands Cafe Bustelo and Cafe Pilon, into a company whose sales surpassed $110 million in 2010.