What a year 2025 has been for V Rum! We’ve been up and down the country – meeting new friends, discovering new ideas and serving up our award-winning rum every step of the way.
We’re taking a look back at our most exciting year yet – and raising a glass to all the V Rum fans who made it so special.
Our 2025 events season began in January at Atom’s Food and Drink Event, where we discussed all-things-V with industry buyers.
A jam-packed February saw us attend the Business South Local Produce Trade Show, host Valentines at the Beachcomber Bar, run a Mystery Box Cocktail Competition at Silk Stockings and a V Rum Tasting Session at Odyssey Lounge. To top it all off, we sponsored the prestigious Top 50 Cocktail Bars event, celebrating the best bars and bartenders across the UK.
In April, we took to The Glass House Food Festival in Stockbridge, followed by a weekend of Signature Serve, part of London Wine Fair, in May.
As the summer months rolled in, V events kicked into overdrive with an action-packed summer of festivals, tasters and parties. First up were a pair of food-festivals – Guildford Foodies Festival, quickly followed by Cheltenham Food and Drinks Festival, before a final stop in June with the BCB London trade event.
We stayed close to home in July with two Hampshire events – our Feastleigh Food and Drinks Fiesta debut and our final foodies event of the year – Winchester Foodies Festival – where we launched our exciting new RTD range. We were back to Stockbridge for our first August stop, this time for Trout ‘n’ About.
To round off our summer, we hit the road for the first of FOUR bumper weekends. First up was the New Forest Food Festival, soon followed by our biggest and best event of the year, Big Feastival. Here we ran not one, but TWO bars, serving up our fresh RTD range to the huge crowds that had come to see Nelly Furtado and Daniel Bedingfield. As if one festival wasn’t enough, we went straight into Ideas Fest in early September, serving up big drinks and even bigger ideas.
And finally, in early October we headed once again to Ian Burrell’s incredible celebration of Rum, Rumfest UK. It’s been non-stop behind the V-bar – we served up more than 5000 drinks this year! Your favourite? Our Passionfruit Rum Punch – served up a whopping 745 times!
The year isn’t quite finished yet, with our return to TickEat’s Meet the Buyer Event rounding off October, followed by a winter season of Masterclasses and Christmas Markets – and the ultimate way to crown the year, The Spirits Business Awards!
Thanks for making this year so amazing V Rum fans – whether you met us for the first time at a local stall, partied with us into the night at a festival, or followed us up and down the country, sipping tasters, cocktails and slushies every step of the way!
Here’s to 2026 – see you there!
