The key to getting the best rum gifts for Christmas 2025 is to keep it simple. You want to buy something warming, festive and under £50. You can find something that ticks every box here, from the kind of made-with-love, complex beauties rum nerds appreciate, to the biggest, sweetest, richest spiced rum imaginable.
These bottles have enough versatility to work neat, mixed or dropped into hot drinks when someone inevitably turns the heating down. Anyone new to the category can always fall back on something generous like our Rum Advent Calendars 2025. Consider it a season ticket to the good stuff.
For festive browsing and gifting, the Christmas rum hub and the main rum page offer more bottles than any stocking can reasonably hold.
Here are the Top 10 Rums Under £50 for Christmas that make cracking presents.
Top 10 Rums Under £50 for Christmas
Rumbullion!
The spiced rum to end all spiced rums. Rumbullion! delivers classic winter warmth with a blend of high proof Caribbean rum, Madagascan vanilla, bright orange peel, cassia, clove and a faint drift of cardamom. It takes its cues from old naval grog and comes wrapped in brown paper with twine and black wax. Tastes exactly like something a sea dog would have held dear when the weather turned foul.
DropWorks Barrel Drop Rum
DropWorks Barrel Drop Rum comes from an ambitious English grain-to-glass rum distillery. Fermented with its signature trinity yeast and matured in a mix of casks including American and Portuguese oak hybrids, it brings depth, spice, fruit and a touch of English eccentricity. A brilliant gift for anyone who thinks they’ve tried everything.
Depth Charge Black Cherry Spiced Rum
Depth Charge Black Cherry delivers rich, syrupy black cherry alongside vanilla, lime, cinnamon, cardamom and mandarin. It’s dense, fruity and wonderfully sticky, the sort of thing that works in Tiki cocktails, hot apple drinks, spirit-forward serves, or simply poured neat when the weather turns icy.
Dunderhead Rum
Dunderhead lives up to its name in the best possible way. It blends Caribbean rums with a high ester Jamaican component full of overripe banana, pineapple, sharp citrus and full throttle funk. This is one for the rum nerds, the flavour chasers and anyone looking to wake up a punch bowl. Nothing understated here, except the price.
Green Island Superior Light Rum
Green Island’s Superior Light Rum is a true secret weapon. From Mauritius, this is a clean, bright, charcoal-filtered spirit aged between three and five years. It’s ideal for Mojitos, Daiquiris and highballs when someone inevitably decides Christmas counts as cocktail season. Smooth, light and surprisingly characterful for the price.
Pipa Rum de Goa
Pipa Rum de Goa matches Indian distillation with a year in ruby Port casks from Portugal, infused with black pepper, cinnamon and clove. It celebrates centuries of shared history and tastes gloriously festive, as if someone wrapped Christmas spices in red velvet.
SangSom Rum
SangSom, Thailand’s cult favourite from the 1980s, has a mellow, easygoing sweetness that suits long drinks, cocktails, or simply sipping while pretending it’s warm outside.
Cornish Rock Dark Spiced Pineapple Rum
Cornish Rock’s Dark Spiced Pineapple Rum combines cinnamon, allspice, vanilla and generous pineapple for a sweetly spiced, fireside-friendly sipper. Made with Cornish spring water and produced in small batches, it tastes like someone turned a fruitcake into a beach party.
Planteray Isle of Fiji
Planteray Isle of Fiji offers a tropical, creamy and gently spicy profile after three years in bourbon casks, followed by a spell in French oak. Distilled from Fijian molasses, it brings a real sense of place. Plus, the iguana on the label looks ready to join the festivities.
Rhum St Barth Se Mettre Au Vert Rhum Agricole Blanc
This agricole rhum from St. Barths is built for mixing. It offers grassy brightness and a clean snap that makes the world’s most effortless Ti’ Punch. Perfect for anyone who prefers their Christmas drinks light, fresh and sunny instead of spiced and heavy.