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…