The Rum Company Reviews 

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TrustScore 4.5 out of 5

4.7

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Evaluating 56 reviews, reviewers overwhelmingly had a great experience with this company. Consumers often express immense satisfaction with the overall quality and the delightful range of products available for purchase. Customers praise the extensive product selection, noting that discovering new regional varieties and unique gift sets is both exciting and completely effortless. Reviewers frequently describe the online ordering process as exceptionally smooth and hassle-free while praising the prompt delivery services and careful packaging. Some people were dissatisfied with occasional delivery delays or carrier mishandling that caused valuable packages to arrive late or damaged. A few reviewers also mentioned receiving items that looked dusty or rattled inside the box, highlighting minor areas for improvement.

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Reviews shaping this summary

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Superb selection of rums, many regional. Good pricing and excellent packaging along with prompt delivery. Took a gamble on two bottles a pretty new rum (Pendraig). Waw fabulous lucky dip!!!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

It's not often that I end up writing a positive review when something's gone wrong - but also a sign the rum company customer service is really 10/10. I ordered a bottle of rum for a Christmas pr... See more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Very high quality rums and a great selection available, including some excellent gift box options of varied 50cl rum bottles. Excellent customer service too. Highly recommend if you're a fan of rum of... See more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I looked on line for a different Rum experience and came across the The Rum Company . Fantastic choice of Rums and realistically priced. Most of the choice I hadn’t seen or tried so I ordered three d... See more


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  1. Alcohol Store

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A dedicated online rum shop selling premium independent, rums from all over the UK. An easy-to-use, one-stop shop for everything rum, providing helpful taste notes, mixer recommendations and cocktail recipes along the way.


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4.7

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TrustScore 4.5 out of 5

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Rated 3 out of 5 stars

Strange subscription model, currently in a month long wait from payment to receiving first box.

Got an email requesting a review before I've even received my subscription order...

Ordered on the 1st of the month and won't get my first order until around the 7th of the following month which is very bizarre

Spoke to somebody on live chat that explained that to me as it's unclear. Suggested that they'd be improving their system in the future... but launched the subscription model without being able to ship them out when initially ordered? Makes no sense.

My husband wants to try different rums so I've continued with the order and now I'm in the month long wait from paying for the subscriptions first month to actually receiving it... if I hadn't contacted them and changed the date of payment then I'd be making another payment before I received the first box!

The product may well be worth the wait but in my opinion, if it wasn't for my husband wanting to try different rums and the limited amount of legitimate alcohol subscriptions available, I wouldn't have paid up front for something that I wouldn't get for a month. I'd expect the payment to be taken on despatch or for the order to be shipped shortly after paying and then reoccurring on the same day each month.

We shall see how it goes!...

But leaving a review for people of the future that are also feeling a bit confused about the subscription model!

1 June 2024
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Reply from The Rum Company

Hi Samantha,

Thanks for your review.

We always look for opportunities to improve our service and appreciate your feedback. You are correct, around 400 boxes are packaged, labelled and posted after a very long day at the start of each month and should be received by the 7th of each month, but we understand the initial wait may be frustrating, especially if purchased for a gift.

Apologies for any confusion, and we hope when your first box is received that you may consider improving our rating.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great selection of flavoured rums

Great selection of flavoured rums with tasting notes and other information, neatly displayed in a good quality box. The whole gift was presented well. Arrived on time and well packaged. Altogether a good purchase and I'm very happy with the product and its' contents.

3 June 2024
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Reply from The Rum Company

Hi Gordon!
Thanks for your kind words, and we hope you enjoyed your gift set!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

good price

good price, like the light hearted descriptions of the rums and fast delivery

17 May 2024
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Reply from The Rum Company

Hi Christopher, thanks for taking the time to review us, and we hope to see you again!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great sulphite free selection

Great sulphite free selection . Very helpful information when you have allergies. Easy ordering. Next day delivery option. Great service for presents! Impressive!

24 May 2024
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Reply from The Rum Company

Hi Susan, great to hear you found what you were looking for! Cheers, Tom

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Norfolk Rum, no better Rum

Always a joy to see the Norfolk Rum stand at the local farmer's markets. My husband is a whiskey drinker and myself a gin lady but the dark spice rum is our go to Friday night drink. It's the best on the market, we even gifted to friends in the USA recently. I also very much enjoy the honey and vanilla rum, whilst my husband enjoys the Navy strength.

10 February 2024
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

This Rum is amazing

This Rum is amazing , I’ve bought it on a few occasions.
The customer service is amazing ! Recently had a lost parcel and they were really quick at dealing with the issue and made sure I received my purchase .
Sure the rum is a little more expensive than your usual supermarket brands but it’s sooo worth it ! Delicious
The Caramel Rum is my favourite. we also bought the gift set which is really well presented and nice sizes of bottles , love the cards in there with infomation too

15 December 2023
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I can only agree with what one other…

I can only agree with what one other person has said, awful website no search function what so ever. Tried browsing on two different dates and nothing

5 December 2023
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Reply from The Rum Company

Hello Robert!

Thanks for the review.

As you explained in your email to us, your issue was that your browser wasn't allowing you to click on links on the website, not that we didn't have a search function. We would hate for anyone to get confused and think there is no ability to search through our 400 rum bottles and gift sets.

We are very sorry to hear you had this issue today. We have just had our 500,000th visitor on the website and this is the first record of this issue, so sounds like you got unlucky this time. We emailed you with multiple links to help navigate our site while you had this issue and offered to assist further and help with recommendations, hopefully, they were of use.

To assist anyone reading this worried they won't be able to find the search area, if you just visit our home page or our shop page, it will probably be the first thing you see in the top center of the screen.

Merry Christmas and sorry again that we couldn't help you this time.

Tom

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Easy to use

Easy to use, great service, run by a friendly bunch who love their rum! Will always be coming here first for future rum purchases!

1 November 2023
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Reply from The Rum Company

Thanks for the review Jason! Let us know if you need any recommendations!
Tom

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Terrible website

Terrible website. There is no search function at all. If you want a quick purchase of a favourite brand go somewhere else. This is more for novelty shopping and presents. If you know rum, it is a waste of time. I just gave up.

The Rum Company have reported this review as fraudulent, because I did not make a purchase...even though the point of the review is that I have been unable to make a purchase because they have no search function on the website that is visible on my browser (Safari on both Mac and iPad). Make of this what you will....

15 November 2023
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Reply from The Rum Company

Hi Laurence,

We are sorry to hear you didn't like our website and were unable to find any of our search bars sections on our home page or our shop pages and felt your only option was to give us our first non-5-star review. I will pass your comments on to our web team to see if we can make them any clearer.

Please contact us directly in future if you ever have any issues as we are always willing to help our customers find exactly what they are looking for.

Our team of two only started this business in 2020 to introduce the world to the amazing British rum brands there are, and we are very proud to now have over 350 bottles to choose from and almost 50 gift sets. There are thousands of amazing rums we don't stock yet as a small business but hope to in the future.

If there is something you specifically are looking for that we don't have, we will happily assist you in finding a bottle elsewhere online, as that's how proud we are of our customer service.

Kind regards,
Tom

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Wonderful gifts!!

Bought a set of Welsh rums for a 50th birthday for a Welsh friend. He was blown away by how beautifuly it was packaged, and he never knew they existed which made it even more special. Looks so impressive and expensive! Arrived in perfect condition and on time. Will be my go to site for future gifts!

13 November 2023
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Reply from The Rum Company

Thank you Lee for your amazing review! We are delighted your friend loved their gift! We pride ourselves on our high-quality products, excellent customer service, and fast safe shipping and we appreciate you taking the time to acknowledge our efforts. Kind regards, Tom

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Tasty

Tasty! I was gifted 2 different rums and both are delicious. Well packaged, personal and above all else, tasty! It was great to receive 2 I hadn’t tried before.
Top service!

11 August 2023
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Reply from The Rum Company

Hi Ryan! Thanks for taking the time to review our subscription boxes! We’re glad you enjoyed them and there are more on the way! Tom

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Bought gift set for a colleague

Bought gift set for a colleague, constantly informed about where it was in the process, arrived on time.
Top quality product, would recommend them and use them again

13 September 2022
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Incredible customer service

Incredible customer service from The Rum Company!
I had previously bought a bottle of Beckford’s rum which turned out to be the wrong flavour with a different label, I emailed customer service and spoke to Ed, who was apologetic and offered to replace the bottle free of charge. I did not expect this to be sorted so quickly and not only that, it has been delivered personally by them all within a matter of days! I will definitely be buying from The Rum Company again.

10 September 2022
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