Name: Starbucks Introduces The Chestnut Praline Latte
Uploaded: 2014-11-12
Duration: 1 min 30 s
Description: Starbucks Introduces The Chestnut Praline Latte

Starbucks just announced a new drink for its holiday lineup. The first holiday edition in five years. The chestnut praline latte is now a thing, competing with the pumpkin spice latte. But this is not a move Starbucks makes lightly. The company poured two years of [ INAUDIBLE ]. D into this drink. It ran trials in a couple stores last year, but this year, the chestnut praline latte gets a full North American rollout. Starbucks' Amy Dilger, who though up the new concoction, said she started with what people knew, chesnuts, specifically. One thing that I think helps the new beverage is when it's in that sweet spot of sort of being old and classic but also new with a little bit of an edge. To it. That edge would be the bits of praline on the top, mock praline anyway. The drink doesn't contain any actual nut products. Even with the confectionary, it's not as sweet as the pumpkin spice latte according to those who have tried it and it looks to be a bit easier on holiday waistline. A grande is 330 calories, 39 grams. Of sugar, that's a bit lighter then the pumpkins spice, 380 calories and 49 grams of sugar, but even with that going for it chestnut praline has it's work cut out for it if it wants to challenge pumpkin spices cult like dominance. The fall latte has cleared more then 200 million drinks sold since its introduction in 2003. Starbucks says the new latte will be served hot in stores starting. You could also get it Iced or as a Frappuccino if for some reason, you aren't cold enough yet.