What's included. Starbucks® signature cold brew sweetened with vanilla syrup, topped with a silky, pistachio cream cold foam and finished with salted brown-buttery sprinkles for a sweet treat to start up any winter day.

Subtle, salty and sweet But the real star of this new drink has to be the salted brown buttery sprinkles. The salty sprinkles are the first thing you taste when you take a sip, and they they provide a welcome salty contrast to the sweet, nutty cold brew.

Sweet pistachio flavor blended with milk and ice, then finished with whipped cream and a salted brown-buttery topping: an icy-smooth, creamy treat to keep you refreshed in the new year.

This is dessert for breakfast, plain and simple, and it rocks. I love the salty, nutty, creamy, bitter flavors here. Starbucks uses a deliciously salty pistachio cream cold foam that I would, as with any other whipped cream, happily eat nozzle-to-mouth with my head tilted back like a drunkard at a bar.

“Pistachio is the perfect flavor to follow the holidays and carry us through the winter season,” said Rosalyn Batingan on the Starbucks beverage team. “Its smooth and sweet profile delivers a feeling of warmth and coziness, even when served cold.

While the Pistachio Cream Cold Brew offers the “ultra-smooth combination of pistachio cream cold foam” atop Starbucks' cold brew coffee, the Pistachio Latte combines the chain's “signature espresso, steamed milk and flavors of sweet pistachio with top notes of brown butter,” Batingan notes.

That means a small Pistachio Cream Cold Brew is within our suggested calorie and sodium parameters for a drink or dessert, but folks who are eating a heart-healthy or diabetes-friendly diet may want to watch out for the saturated fat and sugar content.

The flavor balance between the pistachios and ice cream is perfect. Pistachios are packed with flavor, and the density and consistency of them is perfect throughout the pint. The pistachios being lightly roasted makes it unique and stand out. Ice cream itself tastes excellent, full of flavor.

Pistachio cream can be found in most Italian kitchens. It's versatile & full of flavour. You can use it to fill Italian-style doughnuts (Bomboloni) or mix it with ricotta & use it to fill homemade cannoli. However you choose to use it, its sweet & nutty flavour profile is exemplary.

There's a hint of bitterness to the drink, but it's so delicate that I almost figured I dreamed it. I love to savor the velvety foam on almost every Starbucks cold brew. And the pistachio cream is a delight, with a very mellow, nutty taste.

By far, the Java Chip Frappuccino holds the highest sugar content in all of Starbucks' menu selections - an astounding 80 grams or 16 teaspoons for a 24-ounce Venti. Other drinks that are also high in sugar content include the Caramel Frappuccino, White Chocolate Mocha Frappuccino, and Salted Caramel Mocha Frappuccino.

The original pistachio latte will still be available hot, cold, or as a frappuccino. The hot latte has the most balanced flavor profile between the coffee and the pistachio, while the original cold latte offers a subtle nutty flavor with every sip.