In general I love Starbucks products. This is not one of them. I was looking forward to trying this with Fall coming. But, the taste is horrible. Very artificial tasting. They make it sound special with the "Limited Edition" label, but I wonder if they did any taste testing research at all. If they had, I can't believe they would have released this product. I will note my girlfriend says it is not too bad if you use it for iced coffee, but agrees on the artificial, chemically flavor. I won't buy it again. If Starbucks improves the formulation and send me a free sample maybe I'll try it again next year.
I was looking forward to trying the Starbucks pumpkin spice flavor. After all, they're the inventors of the pumpkin spice coffee flavor, so I thought it would surely be the best! Sadly not the case. I cannot taste one bit of pumpkin flavor. Maybe it's a bad batch for this season, because I read all the great reviews from at least 7 months ago but what I just tasted doesn't fit those descriptions. Unless the reviewers never tasted an actual pumpkin spice beverage from Starbucks. I love Starbucks, but other brands taste much, much more like pumpkin spice in K-cups. These are a slightly flavored coffee of some kind, but would never guess it's pumpkin, and definitely no spice.