SMOKED! VIP/Early: A Whiskey, Wine & Global Smoked Cuisine Experience
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When
Friday, March 7, 2025
6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Where
Dewey Gottwald Center
2500 West Broad St.,
Richmond,
Virginia,
23220
Details
Gain Entry One Hour Early and Access to Special Bottles at This Premier Whiskey, Wine & Food Experience
***Early Bird tickets and bundles on sale October 17. Save 20%. 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 cognacs, 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.
Ticket Package Availability
This event can be purchased a la carte or as part of one ticket package - 'VIP Weekend’, which you can check out on the Ticket Packages page.
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