Schedule of Events:

6:00 PM – 10:00 PM: SMOKED! VIP/Early: A Whiskey, Wine & Global Smoked Cuisine Experience

Gain Entry One Hour Early and Access to Special Bottles at This Premier Whiskey, Wine & Food Experience

***Advance tickets and bundles on sale now.  Save 10%.  Limited quantity available while supplies last.
We're kicking it up a notch in 2025 with a brand new venue, refreshed beverage content and a curated selection of global smoked food representing an array of regional and international cuisines.

Beautiful Dewey Gottwald Center, a sleek steel and glass structure, is the new home for SMOKED!  In addition to a the 80+ whiskeys - many of which you will be able to taste and buy to take home - we will curate a selection of highly regarded wines from Virginia AND our 2025 ‘Regions of Emphasis’, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Sonoma, CA.

Additionally, we will be introducing a select number of brandy's, and smoked/whiskey-barrel aged craft beers.

Join us for a smoke-kissed walk around the country and the world with this uniquely crafted signature event which emphasizes top-shelf whiskeys and other spirits primarily from Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Scotland.

SMOKED! kicks off the Expo's biggest weekend with this unforgettable night of indulgence and laid-back luxury, which also includes an incredible silent auction, and live music.

Foodies, wine lovers, and whiskey enthusiasts will love this event.

General Entry into SMOKED!

SMOKED! has a general entry time of 7pm, if you don't want to enter an hour earlier at 6pm with this VIP/Early ticket. Please check out the details here.

With Your Ticket, You Will:

Gain entry one hour early, taste well over 100 premium beverages including whiskeys, other barrel-aged spirits, and wines, plus enjoy exclusive access to special VIP whiskeys and wines, as long as they last, THROUGHOUT the three-hour-and-forty-five-minute session
 
Savor an expanded menu of smoked and some non-smoked cuisine from various regions of the U.S. and around the world.  Food selections will satisfy both meat lovers and vegetarians.
 
Enjoy the opportunity to buy virtually all Virginia whiskeys to take home.
 
Enjoy an extraordinary silent and live Auction and bid on items quickly and easily with your mobile phone.
 
Enjoy choosing either a Stolzle crystal whiskey glass or a Stolzle crystal wine glass to use at the event and take home.
 
Enjoy complimentary spirit-check, which will hold bottles of whiskey you purchase until you leave the event, and coat check services.
 
Enjoy complimentary artisan water throughout the event.
 
Enjoy using seating at tables and cocktail rounds located throughout the event space.
 
Enjoy a covered, designated smoking area conveniently located just outside the event space.

Important Information

*All spirits and wine tables will end tastings at 9:45 p.m., fifteen minutes before the end of the event.  However, some of those tables will still remain open only for closed bottle sales if they are a Virginia distillery.
Only 21 years or older are permitted to enter the event.
Smart casual or smart chic attire recommended.
All inclusive.

SAMPLE SMOKED! Menu from the 2024 SMOKED! Event

Smoked blue fish over warm potato salad with celery sprouts served on bamboo Asian style
Tandoori marinated woodfire grilled chicken served with rice on lettuce wrap
Harvest lentil salad with butternut squash, kale, pomegranate arils, feta and balsamic-fig vinaigrette
Smoked duck reuben with duck fat fried potato tots
Smoked curried peach skewers
Woodfire hoagie with tender sliced beef
Hatch chili Mac n' cheese
Pork belly burnt ends
Smoked deviled eggs filled with spiced garlic aioli yolks and topped with baby heirloom tomatoes, smoky candied bacon and micro greens
Moroccan smoked leg of lamb with grilled vegetable couscous, pickled red onion, cucumber salsa and pomegranate
Smoked duck confit and goat cheese wonton
Smoked pastrami carving station
Smoked chicken salad
BBQ baby back pork ribs
Smoked Texas rope sausage, pork and beef, mild spice with hints of maple, sauce served on the side
BBQ portobello, smoked then grilled. VEGAN. Meat eaters will never know it’s a mushroom!
Fresh collards braised with smoked pork
Smoked beef cheek confit taco
Woodfire pizzas  and woodfire hushpuppies created fresh onsite, multiple varieties, try them all!
Green beans tossed in a brown butter sauce
Peter Chang special Szechuan smoked chicken with vegetables
Premium deli smokehouse meat selection (Publix)
Smoked Use cheesecake
Red Truck Bakery Applejack Butter Pecan Bundt Cake
Red Truck Bakery Lexington Kentucky Bourbon Cake
Red Truck Bakery Alma Hackney Rum Cake

Dewey Gottwald Center
2500 West Broad St.,
Richmond, Virginia, 23220

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7:00 PM – 10:00 PM: SMOKED! General: A Whiskey, Wine & Global Smoked Cuisine Experience

Premier Whiskeys, a Curated Selection of Wines, and Brilliant Global Smoked Cuisine Highlight This Refreshed Event at Dewey Gottwald Center

***Advance tickets and bundles on sale now.  Save 10%.  Limited quantity available while supplies last.
 
We're kicking it up a notch in 2025 with a brand new venue, refreshed beverage content and a curated selection of global smoked food representing an array of regional and international cuisines.

Beautiful Dewey Gottwald Center, a sleek steel and glass structure, is the new home for SMOKED!  In addition to a the 80+ whiskeys - many of which you will be able to taste and buy to take home - we will curate a selection of highly regarded wines from Virginia AND our 2025 ‘Regions of Emphasis’, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Sonoma, CA.

Additionally, we will be introducing a select number of brandy's, and smoked/whiskey-barrel aged craft beers.

We hope you join us to take a smoke-kissed walk around the country and the world with this uniquely crafted signature event which emphasizes top-shelf whiskeys and other spirits primarily from Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Scotland

SMOKED! kicks off the Expo's biggest weekend with this unforgettable night of indulgence and laid-back luxury, which also includes an incredible silent auction, and live music,=.

Foodies, wine lovers, and whiskey enthusiasts will love this event.

Dewey Gottwald Center
2500 West Broad Street,
Richmond, Virginia, 23220

Buy Tickets