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Enthusiasts share their honest opinions here every day. We hunt down the best price across more than 40 shops.

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Four quick questions. From 25,000 rums, we'll pull out the ones the community rates highest.

1How do you like to drink your rum?
2Which world of flavors tempts you?
3What strength should it be?
4And what would you like to spend?

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🇩🇴 Dominican Republic
7.1/10 · 9,015 reviews · 805 rums
🇯🇲 Jamaica
8.3/10 · 53,743 reviews · 2,688 rums
🇧🇧 Barbados
8.0/10 · 28,106 reviews · 1,277 rums
🇬🇾 Guyana
8.4/10 · 24,864 reviews · 1,676 rums

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🇧🇧 Foursquare
8.3/10 · 14,969 reviews · 631 rums
🇩🇴 Brugal
7.0/10 · 774 reviews · 39 rums
🇯🇲 Hampden
8.4/10 · 20,793 reviews · 603 rums
🇹🇹 Caroni
8.8/10 · 10,553 reviews · 616 rums
Rum, explained

The world of rum: origin, style, taste

Rum is the most versatile spirit in the world, and that is exactly what makes it hard to get into. Two bottles made from the same sugar cane can taste like they have nothing in common. Here is where those differences come from.

Molasses or cane juice: what rum is made from

Rum is made mainly from molasses or from freshly pressed sugar cane juice. Molasses is the thick by-product of sugar production, and it carries the dark, heavy notes most people associate with rum. Distil the fresh juice instead and you get Rhum Agricole: grassy, mineral, noticeably fresher on the palate. Raw material and region of production shape a rum more than the brand on the label does. That is exactly why you can sort the database by both.

English, French, Spanish: the three style families

The English style is powerful and aromatic, with tropical fruit and spice. Jamaica still distils its rum traditionally in copper pot stills. The French style is built on fresh sugar cane juice and brings the grassy notes of Agricole with it, the way they shape the rhum of Martinique. The Spanish style is usually light and soft, with aromas like vanilla and caramel. In the highlands of Central and South America it produces soft rums with intense aromas. In the Caribbean you often find both side by side, molasses and cane juice rums from the same region. Rum regions differ sharply, through their historical roots and through local rules about what may even be called rum.

White, gold, dark, spiced: the types at a glance

White rum is light and fresh, with fine citrus notes. Gold and aged rum matures in charred oak casks and shows mild wood aromas. Dark rum goes further, towards dark chocolate and tobacco. Spiced rum is infused with spices or fruit flavours after distillation, which makes it a type of its own rather than a maturity level. How much sugar ends up in the bottle is something the community records in its ratings. That is why sweetened and unsweetened rums sit here as separate types.

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Why you'll love RumX

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Discover over 25,000 rums and 320,000 reviews to find the perfect bottle.

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The forum is where the exchange happens, between newcomers and long-standing members: bottle shares, joint tastings and the honest question of whether a bottle is really worth it.

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Voices of the community

The independent rating platform: 320,000+ honest ratings, and new ones arrive every day.

53,000+ enthusiasts use the 10-point scale to rate what actually happens in the glass: aromas, strengths, weaknesses. Unvarnished and independent of the label. And here you can see what the community has been tasting most recently.

Stefan Persson
Stefan Persson
Jul 11, 2025
4.7/10

It’s much too sweet for me, sugarbomb. It’s more of a liquor than rum.

Diplomático Reserva Exclusiva
Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
May 23, 2023
7.0/10

Delicious and a lot of tropical fruit. Vanilla is coming through in this one and it sticks for a while. A super rum to sit and sip with your friends. A very good beginners rum in my mind,

West Indies Planteray Extra Old XO 20th Anniversary
Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
Nov 24, 2022
7.1/10

This is a very well balanced rum from Zacapa and I like is a lot especially considering the price tag. The nose is heavy with spice and sweetness and a touch of orange zest and chocolate. The palate is well rounded with caramel, honey and chocolate topped of with burnt oak and overripe fruits. It has a long, sweet and fruity finish with burnt oak. I'd say this one is better than the bottling from the late 90s and early 00s that won medals. Price to quality is very good.

Ron Zacapa Sistema Solera 23
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  • Interactive tasting wizard: Our assistant walks you through nose, palate and finish so you can judge every bottle like a connoisseur.
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  • Personalized recommendations: Your tastings and wishlist turn into buying suggestions that match your taste profile.

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Oliver Gerhardt in a RumX shirt, smiling at the camera, holding a glass of rum and a bottle. Oliver · Founder

By rum lovers, for rum lovers

I'm Oliver, and RumX began in 2018 as a small passion project in Stuttgart, back then under the name Rum Tasting Notes.

What began as my digital tasting diary is now the world's most comprehensive platform for rum fans, today carried by a small team with Jakob, Lukas and Katharina, with Robert supporting us as a freelancer. We combine the collective intelligence of our community with an integrated marketplace, so you can choose with confidence, without paperwork, detours, or expert jargon.

Oliver, Stuttgart

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What rum enthusiasts say about RumX

Single Cask Rum
“Had you asked me about a year ago what Rum is truly missing, I probably would have said a proper, functioning database. With the RumX App it is finally here and its functionalities leave little to be desired.”

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Michael Schäfer
“Ein Muss für jeden Rum Liebhaber und für alle, die es noch werden wollen. Die App bietet Austausch mit Gleichgesinnten, Bewertungen von Rums, Orientierung bei Kaufentscheidung, Preisvergleich und vieles mehr.”

Michael Schäfer

★ 5/5 on Google · June 2026
Joachim Guger-Höller
“Tolle community für Rum-Liebhaber! Das richtige Asset ist aber der Marktplatz, viele Shops sind vertreten, Preise sind super!”

Joachim Guger-Höller

★ 5/5 on Google · June 2026
Jarek K
“Best source for rum related Information and data. Great international community. For beginners, advanced rum lovers and experts.”

Jarek K

★ 5/5 on Google · June 2026
Enriko Špinler
“RumX has completely changed the way I enjoy rum. Thanks to this amazing platform, I have discovered incredible rums and connected with rum friends from all around the world.”

Enriko Špinler

★ 5/5 on Google · June 2026

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Frequently asked questions

RumX is an innovative platform and app for rum lovers, which has grown from a German hobby project to the largest community platform for rum worldwide in just a few years. Founder Oliver Gerhardt originally launched RumX in 2018 as an app called “Rum Tasting Notes” with only around 300 rums in the database at the time. Thanks to a combination of technical innovation and genuine passion for rum, it quickly grew into a vibrant community. Today, RumX has the most comprehensive rum database in the world and connects rum fans around the globe with all the information and opportunities to exchange ideas on the subject of rum.

RumX stands out with its all-in-one concept, which is unique in the world of rum. With tens of thousands of members, over 25,000 different rums in the database, and more than 320,000 reviews, RumX is already the largest rum platform in the world. Users can find comprehensive information about rums before purchasing, buy them directly through RumX, and then rate them, and even manage their own collection digitally and exchange ideas with other rum fans in the forum. This seamless symbiosis of extensive knowledge, community exchange, and direct purchasing feature is unique to RumX and makes the platform an indispensable companion for rum connoisseurs and collectors.

The collective intelligence of the RumX community, with over 320,000 authentic reviews, offers enormous added value for all rum lovers. Instead of buying rum blind, RumX allows you to draw on the experiences of thousands of other enthusiasts and find out in advance what to expect in terms of taste. The pooled opinions and detailed tasting notes help you make informed purchasing decisions. The more reviews and taste impressions are collected, the more accurate the personalized recommendations become, making expensive mispurchases a thing of the past.

The shop-in-shop approach means that RumX has integrated its own marketplace where leading European rum retailers showcase their product ranges. RumX shows you directly which shop has which bottle in stock and at what price, and you can buy the rum you want immediately with just one central RumX account. This integrated shopping experience saves you the hassle of searching and comparing across different retailer websites. The entire process, from discovering a rum to reading reviews to making a purchase, is seamlessly combined on the platform, greatly enhancing convenience for users.

Behind RumX is Oliver Gerhardt from Stuttgart, himself a passionate rum fan and software developer. During his studies, he discovered the fascination of enjoying rum neat through a chance taste test of high-quality rums. In 2018, Oliver began developing an app for tasting notes and collection management based on this hobby, which he initially published with around 300 entries. The former hobby project quickly turned into a startup: Oliver made RumX his full-time project and, with a small team, built what is now the world’s leading platform for rum enthusiasts.

Yes, RumX is free to use, and will remain so in the future. It is important to us that every rum fan has free access to the community and all information. To ensure the further development of the app, RumX relies on a sustainable business model: when a user purchases a bottle via the integrated marketplace, RumX receives a small commission from the retailer without any additional costs for the buyer. This allows the platform to be financed and continuously improved, while all users can continue to use the core functions of the app for free. With RX+, rum lovers can also actively support the further development of the app and unlock cool convenience features. Thank you to everyone who supports us! ❤️

For every rum we collect the offers from the connected online shops and put them side by side on one page: price, availability and shipping costs together. More than 40 European rum shops are connected, and the offers are updated continuously. So you see not only what a bottle costs, but also which shop actually has it in stock right now. If a rum is too expensive for you, you can set a price alert: every price that has already fallen is listed under price drops, and as soon as the price drops, a message goes to your email address.

You add the bottle to your basket directly on RumX and pay with your RumX account. The seller and contractual partner is always the shop itself: it packs the order and sends the delivery to you. For you that means you do not have to create a separate account with every merchant to buy their products. If bottles from several shops are in your basket, each shop ships its own part, with its own delivery and its own shipping costs.

Not for browsing. The rum database, all community ratings and the price comparison are open without signing up. You only need a free account once you want to take part yourself: leave your own ratings, keep your collection, set price alerts or order through the marketplace. An email address and a password are enough for that. Access to the community and to all content stays free, for members and guests alike.

In the RumX app you add every bottle to your collection and record whether it is sealed, open or empty, what you paid for it and how you rate it. You find new bottles through search or through the built-in label scanner, so you simply hold the label in front of the camera. The app works out how many bottles you have open and what your collection is worth, and your tasting notes stay attached to each bottle for good. It is free for iOS and Android.

We sort the catalogue by the distinctions that actually help when buying: white rum, aged rum and Rhum Agricole by production and maturation, sweetened and unsweetened rums by their sugar, plus rarities for everything beyond 250 euros. On top of that you can filter by country, distillery, brand and bottler, because origin and distillery often say more about the taste than the category does. If you have no direction at all yet, the taste finder on the homepage takes you to a shortlist in four questions.

The recommendations come out of your own ratings and those of the community. The more rums you rate, the more precisely a suggestion hits your taste: the AI looks for tasters whose verdicts resemble yours, then looks at what else they like. Added to that are the flavour tags from more than 320,000 ratings, which describe what a rum actually tastes like. The result is rum recommendations that fit your profile, instead of one best-of list that looks the same for everybody.
Price alerts · in the RumX app

Never miss a price drop.

Set a target price in the app, and we'll let you know as soon as the rum becomes available at that price from one of our partner stores. This works for any rum on your wish list.

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