The Best Starbucks Fall Drinks to Order in 2025, According to a Former Barista (Including a New Nutty Bev You’ll Love)

• Nutrition Info (short): 120 calories, 3.5g fat, 22g carbs, 1g protein, 13g sugar, 1g fiber
• Available This Year: yes

The sweet, brown-sugary aroma of this drink—made with three shots blonde espresso, pecan syrup, steamed oat milk and pecan crunch topping—will win you over at first sip. It's lightly sweetened without being cloying, and it doesn't bash your taste buds over the head with warm spices. This is an easy win in my book for folks who don't want a milk- or sugar-heavy drink but still want to take part in the seasonal fun. Don't be concerned when you're handed a short cup—cortados are like micro lattes with a 50/50 ratio of milk to espresso, so they're small in size.

• Nutrition Info (grande): 250 calories, 12g fat, 31g carbs, 3g protein, 31g sugar, 0g fiber
• Available This Year: yes

If lattes have too much milk to make the cut for your morning joe, opt for this cold brew instead, which is officially back for another season. The coffee is sweetened with vanilla syrup (although you could ask the barista to use pumpkin spice syrup instead) and topped with a pumpkin-infused cream cold foam before being sprinkled with pumpkin spice topping. Personally, I think the other pumpkin offerings are tastier, but this minimally sweet option is good for cold brew stans.

• Nutrition Info (grande): 460 calories, 17g fat, 68g carbs, 10g protein, 66g sugar, 0g fiber
• Available This Year: yes

Starbucks is arguably most famous for customizing drinks by request, and that's exactly how this decadent number came to be. It pairs spiced chai concentrate with your choice of milk, pumpkin cream cold foam and a flurry of pumpkin spice for good measure. It's indeed very sweet, but still delicious, and I'm not sure fall gets cozier than this, folks.

• Nutrition Info (grande hot): 380 calories, 8g fat, 77g carbs, 1g protein, 70g sugar, 0g fiber
• Available This Year: yes

I like to think of this fall bev as a hidden gem, as many Starbucks loyalists don’t even know it exists. Despite the drink being on the menu year-round, it’s pretty darn autumnal if you ask me. (Think of it as an extra sweet cheater’s mulled cider.) Soothe your soul one sip at a time with cinnamon dolce syrup-spiked apple juice, steamed to perfection. As if that isn’t drool-worthy enough, the drink also gets a generous drizzle of caramel sauce and a crown of whipped cream.

• Nutrition Info (grande hot): 240 calories, 4.5g fat, 45g carbs, 8g protein, 42g sugar, 0g fiber
• Available This Year: yes

Another permanent menu item that shines just a bit brighter in the fall. Served hot or iced, the chai tea latte starts with black tea concentrate infused with cinnamon, clove and a slew of warm spices. Its intensity is curbed by the addition of steamed milk. Make it a bit sweeter with a few pumps of vanilla (or pumpkin!) syrup, or ask the barista to substitute apple juice for standard water to up the fall ante—its sweetness will pair beautifully with chai’s bounty of spices.

• Nutrition Info (grande hot): 390 calories, 14g fat, 52g carbs, 14g protein, 50g sugar, 0g fiber
• Available This Year: yes

The PSL is that b**** with good reason—and she turns 22 this fall. The warm-spiced pumpkin syrup made with cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves is the secret to its fame (and it blows that of competitors away), along with the brand's signature espresso and a milk of your choice. Over the years, it’s become Starbucks’s most popular seasonal sipper of all time. The syrup is combined with steamed milk and fresh espresso for a hot latte, though you can also order an iced pumpkin spice latte as well. Either way, I'd be remiss not to suggest springing for whipped cream and a dusting of pumpkin pie spice on top.

• Nutrition Info (grande hot): 270 calories, 9g fat, 47g carbs, 3g protein, 26g sugar, 3g fiber
• Available This Year: yes

Full disclosure: I adore this Starbucks fall drink. It's a latte, so it may be a lot of milk for cold brew vets, and it's sweeter than the pecan cortado, but if those aren't cons to you, you're going to love this mix of blonde espresso, oat milk and pecan crunch topping. It has buttery, nutty notes—like the pie it's named after—with a light, caramelly flavor. It tastes more like coffee than some others on this list, and I loved the salty crunch of the pecan topping. Ultimately, I preferred the hot version (the iced version looked really pretty, crowned with vanilla sweet cream cold foam, but it was too sweet for me).

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How is it that I crave the Frappuccino's icy embrace even on chilly fall days? One thing’s for sure: I dreamt about this blended rendition of my favorite fall mocha for months, only to have to say goodbye a few years back. It had all the same ingredients as the latte, save for the Frappuccino blend coffee in place of espresso and the addition of Frappuccino base, which gives the blended drink its silky consistency. With whipped cream, caramel sauce and a flourish of turbinado sugar and sea salt on top, it was ready to demolish.

• Nutrition Info (grande hot): 320 calories, 10g fat, 56g carbs, 3g protein, 29g sugar, 3g fiber
• Available This Year: no

This Starbucks fall drink unfortunately won't be coming back in 2025. It was made with blonde espresso and creamy oatmilk and was available both hot and iced. The apple crisp oatmilk macchiato started with brown sugar apple syrup (it tasted like apple pie filling). The syrup was topped with oatmilk and espresso shots, then the drink was finished with caramelized spiced apple drizzle, made from apple juice, apple purée, cinnamon and nutmeg. It gave the bev a comforting aroma that screamed autumn.

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• Available This Year: no

This iconic fall drink was axed in 2021, but I can't imagine why: The salted caramel mocha was basically liquid dessert, since it called for both mocha sauce and toffee nut syrup. While espresso offered some bitterness and steamed milk thinned out the sugary base, I'd always reserve this seasonal pick for mornings when I was really craving a treat instead of coffee. I also loved the salted caramel hot chocolate with whipped cream and caramel drizzle, which was just like the mocha minus the espresso. I'll cross my fingers (and start campaigning) for its 2026 return. For now, the closest you can get is a Salted Caramel Mocha Strato Frappuccino.

• Nutrition Info (grande): 370 calories, 12g fat, 64g carbs, 4g protein, 46g sugar, 2g fiber
• Available This Year: no

Warm-spiced chai, rich oat milk and apple brown sugar syrup met a thick layer of lush nondairy cold foam to create Starbucks's signature bev of 2024. Yup, I'm gonna miss this one. "It reminds me of a crisp, light apple juice with a creamy, brown sugar-y finish," PureWow VP of editorial Candace Davison said after tasting it last year.

• Nutrition Info (grande): 180 calories, 4.5g fat, 34g carbs, 2g protein, 21g sugar, 1g fiber
• Available This Year: no

If you're not into mostly-milk coffee drinks, the Apple Crisp Oatmilk Macchiato might not have appealed to you. But this alternative would have, as it's more coffee-forward and robust. Think blonde espresso and brown sugar apple syrup, bursting with notes of cinnamon, shaken together and finished with oatmilk. Of course, you could have subbed regular milk or another nondairy alternative, but the oatmilk's luxurious texture suited the bev just right.

• Nutrition Info: not available
• Available This Year: not in the U.S.

Now nixed from the lineup, this drink hit Starbucks’s menu in 2017 alongside the Maple Macchiato. It was loaded with notes of maple syrup, nutty brown butter and pecans. The best part was the crunchy sugar topping sprinkled over the foam. Its U.S. relaunch is up in the air (it’s still super popular in Canada), but you can safely assume that my fingers and toes are already crossed for its return.