Michael Lang is one of the new owners of The Steamboat Collective located at 1875 Ski Time Square Drive. The new business is open in the morning as a coffee shop featuring Big Iron Coffee Co., in the afternoon the establishment hosts upscale wine tastings and is reserved for members and private events in the evening.
John F. Russell/Steamboat Pilot & Today

Sommeliers Michael Lang and AJ Fossum have teamed up to create The Steamboat Collective, a new enterprise that will blend the great taste of Big Iron Coffee Co. during the day, with an upscale wine tasting venue in the evenings.

“We have an interesting business plan,” Lang said as he watched snowguns blow along the slopes of Steamboat Resort from the lounge area of The Collective on Friday morning. “Basically it’s a coffee shop during the morning, we do wine tastings in the afternoon, and we are a private club in the evenings.”

Lang, who worked as a sommelier at Harwigs and…



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