Starbucks’ Eggnog Latte in 2025. Its 2026 return is still unconfirmed. Photo: Starbucks.
If you spent years asking Starbucks to bring back the Eggnog Latte and then immediately panicked when it finally returned, apparently you are not alone.
People are already looking for the Starbucks Eggnog Latte for 2026, which raises the obvious question: Is Starbucks bringing it back again this year?
Here’s the actual answer right now: Starbucks has not officially confirmed the Eggnog Latte for its 2026 holiday menu yet.
Starbucks has now shared its October 5 holiday preview, with a November 5, 2026 launch. Eggnog Latte is not named in that preview. That leaves its return unconfirmed.
Starbucks finally brought the Eggnog Latte back in 2025
This wasn’t just another holiday drink that quietly disappeared for a season.
The Eggnog Latte had been gone from Starbucks’ regular U.S. holiday lineup for several years before Starbucks finally brought it back on December 2, 2025.
Starbucks said customers had been asking for it, and its beverage team went through more than 30 recipe versions while bringing the drink back.
The final version featured Starbucks signature espresso with steamed eggnog, creamy foam and ground nutmeg. Starbucks also offered an iced Eggnog Latte and Eggnog Cream Cold Foam.
So, is the Starbucks Eggnog Latte coming back in 2026?
The first 2026 preview names Peppermint Mocha, Caramel Brulée Latte, Sugar Cookie Latte and Gingerbread Chai as returning drinks. It also introduces Tiramisu Velvet drinks and an Apple Pomegranate Refresher.
Eggnog Latte is not on that announced list. Starbucks has not confirmed a 2026 Eggnog Latte date, but leaving it out of this preview is not an announcement that it has been canceled.
Why fans are still watching for Eggnog Latte
Before the 2025 comeback, asking whether Starbucks would bring Eggnog Latte back required a lot more wishful thinking.
Now we at least know Starbucks was willing to resurrect it.
The Eggnog Latte is also kind of a big deal in Starbucks history. Starbucks says it dates back to 1986 and was its first-ever holiday espresso beverage.
So this isn’t some random drink somebody invented on TikTok last December. It is literally one of the drinks that started the whole Starbucks-holiday-drink thing.
That does not mean a 2026 return is guaranteed.
But after Starbucks went through the trouble of reformulating it and bringing it back in 2025, this is absolutely one of the drinks we’re watching hardest for the 2026 holiday season.
When would the Eggnog Latte return?
Here’s another thing worth remembering: in 2025, Eggnog Latte didn’t arrive with the first holiday-menu drop.
Starbucks launched its main holiday menu on November 6, 2025, with drinks including Peppermint Mocha, Caramel Brulée Latte, Iced Sugar Cookie Latte and Iced Gingerbread Chai.
Eggnog Latte and Chestnut Praline Latte came later, arriving December 2.
That later arrival is useful context now that Eggnog is absent from the first 2026 preview. It is not a confirmed 2026 release plan.
December 2 belongs to the 2025 comeback. Starbucks has not announced that date for Eggnog Latte in 2026.
What we know about the Starbucks holiday menu for 2026
For the drinks Starbucks has confirmed, see our Starbucks holiday menu guide. We’re also keeping track of the other chains in our Holiday Drinks 2026 guide, including Starbucks, Dunkin and Dutch Bros.
That’s where we’re separating the stuff that is actually confirmed from previous-year drinks, reasonable possibilities and internet rumors that got a little too confident.
And yes, Eggnog Latte is officially on the watch list.
Because after waiting years for Starbucks to bring it back once, I refuse to start mourning it again until Starbucks actually makes us.
We’ll update this post the second Starbucks confirms whether Eggnog Latte is returning for the 2026 holiday season.
