The seasonal autumn one of the Costa sachets: syrupy maple leading, warm toasted hazelnut behind it, and the coffee kept modest at three out of five, so like the Mocha this is a sweet treat rather than a proper coffee. Silky foam, made in seconds, no machine. Firmly a crisp autumn morning or cosy evening indulgence, not a daily driver, and a limited seasonal run so do not build a habit on it. Pleasant and well judged for what it is; reach for the Cappuccino or a plain jar if you actually want the coffee to lead.
Lee Samuel Tucker · Curator · teas.co.uk
The full picture of Costa Maple Hazel Latte, 5 Sachets 85g in one page. Who makes it, how it is brewed, what your £6.50 actually buys, and why this tea earned a spot on the curator shelf.
Costa Maple Hazel Latte, 5 Sachets 85g is the seasonal autumn variant in the Costa at home latte range, built around Costa Mocha Italia coffee with a maple and hazelnut top note layered over the cafe style milk powder body. The full picture of how this 5-sachet carton performs, what each cup actually costs versus the cafe drink, and why maple hazelnut is the right autumn afternoon cup.
The blend is a powdered Costa coffee + maple + hazelnut latte mix built on Costa Mocha Italia signature coffee for the proper coffee bite, hazelnut flavouring for the nutty mid palate, maple syrup flavouring for the autumn sweetness, skimmed milk powder for cafe style cup body, sugar, and foam aid emulsifiers. One sachet (17g) into a 250ml mug, top with 200ml hot water, stir for ten seconds, you get the cafe cup in 30 seconds flat.
The carton holds 5 single serve sachets at 85g total, working out at approximately £0.84 per cup at the current retail price, the highest per cup price in the Costa at home latte sachet range due to the smaller pack format. Often stocked as a limited edition seasonal product across autumn into winter. Outer carton is FSC certified card and fully kerbside recyclable; sachets foil pouch for freshness.
Texture is creamy with the maple hazelnut character on top, less indulgent than Millionaires Mocha (no chocolate) but more autumn coded than Salted Caramel because of the maple syrup top note. The hazelnut adds genuine nuttiness rather than artificial praline edge. Works particularly well around autumn Christmas as a seasonal cup. Vegetarian, contains dairy from the milk powder. Limited edition seasonal stocking.
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Texture & appearance
The drink pours a warm caramel brown colour with a creamy foam head. Aroma off the cup is hazelnut and maple first, with the Costa Mocha Italia coffee underneath. The maple character is warm and autumnal rather than syrupy sweet, and the hazelnut adds a genuine nutty depth rather than the synthetic praline edge you get from cheaper hazelnut coffee mixes. Distinctly autumn coded.
Mouthfeel is creamy with a nutty warm character, sitting in the same indulgence range as Salted Caramel, sweeter than Cappuccino but not as thick as Millionaires Mocha. The hazelnut + maple combination produces a particularly comforting mouthfeel that pairs well with substantial breakfast or afternoon snack foods.
Flavour progression is maple hazelnut coffee. Opening is maple sweetness, warm and autumnal. Mid palate develops hazelnut nuttiness with the milk powder cream coating the tongue. Finish is Costa Mocha Italia coffee bitterness coming through at the back, with the maple lingering longest on the aftertaste. Genuine seasonal cafe replica character.
Aftertaste is maple creamy with espresso depth, with maple lingering longer than the hazelnut. Sugar content is medium (~11g per cup), similar to Salted Caramel. No artificial maple syrup edge (real maple flavouring rather than cheaper synthetic), no chemical hazelnut residue. Particularly works as an autumn into winter seasonal cup rather than a year round daily drink.
Storage tip: keep the sachets in their carton in a cool dry cupboard. Each sachet is single serving. Foil pouch keeps the maple + hazelnut aromatics sealed for ~12 months unopened. Best with hot water or hot milk; optional whipped cream + chopped hazelnut sprinkle on top for cafe grade autumn presentation.
Four dimension profile
Maple Sweetness5/5
Warm autumnal maple syrup top note; the seasonal defining character of this cup.
Hazelnut Depth4/5
Genuine nutty mid palate, not synthetic praline edge.
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About CostaEST. 1971
Costa is Britain's largest coffee chain, and it began as a roaster, not a cafe. Brothers Sergio and Bruno Costa started roasting in London in 1971, supplying caterers with their slow roasted Mocha Italia blend before opening their own stores. That blend, roasted more slowly than the industrial norm to drive off the sharp notes and leave a rounder body, is still the backbone of the cup. The chain became the dominant force in British coffee retail and was acquired by The Coca Cola Company in 2019, which put its name on supermarket shelves at serious scale.
The at home range covers the cafe formats people order by reflex, cappuccino, latte, flat white, mocha and the flavoured sachets, plus straight roast and ground. Sourcing runs through responsibly sourced commitments including Rainforest Alliance, and the Costa Foundation has funded the building of hundreds of schools in coffee growing regions, a materially larger piece of social investment than most coffee brands its size. For our shelf Costa is the brand to reach for when a customer wants the familiar British high street cup at home without an espresso machine. The sachets are genuinely convenient, the flavour tracks the cafe rather than disappointing against it, and the Mocha Italia character gives them fuller body than most instant format rivals. It is comfort coffee, engineered and consistent, and the at home range tastes like the brand people already chose rather than a budget echo of it.
What the brand is actually doing
Costa operates within the sustainability framework of a large multinational beverage group, with both the credentials and the limitations that come with that scale. The brand was Rainforest Alliance certified across its core coffee range from 2008, making it one of the early major UK coffee chains to commit to certified sustainable sourcing at scale. Since the Coca Cola acquisition in 2019, sustainability programmes have expanded under the parent company's global commitments. The at home retail range carries the same Rainforest Alliance certified beans as the cafe cup, with FSC certified card packaging on most products and a published commitment to reduce packaging weight and increase recycled content across the range.
Curator says, Lee on Costa
"The seasonal autumn one of the Costa sachets: syrupy maple leading, warm toasted hazelnut behind it, and the coffee kept modest at three out of five, so like the Mocha this is a sweet treat rather than a proper coffee. Silky foam, made in seconds, no machine. Firmly a crisp autumn morning or cosy evening indulgence, not a daily driver, and a limited seasonal run so do not build a habit on it. Pleasant and well judged for what it is; reach for the Cappuccino or a plain jar if you actually want the coffee to lead."
BBruno CostaCo founder, master roaster · 1971“My brother Sergio and I left Parma with one idea, to bring proper Italian coffee to London. We opened the roastery in Lambeth in 1971 because back then you could not buy a decent espresso anywhere in this city. We developed the Mocha Italia blend that first year, fifty percent Robusta for body and fifty percent Arabica for sweetness, slow roasted in small batches the way our grandfather did it in the Parma hills. Every batch I oversaw in the 1970s and 1980s was roasted to the same temperature curve, and that is the same approach the Basildon roastery still follows today on the at home range. That blend is still the recipe in every Costa cup over fifty years later, and that means something to me, even now that the brand is owned by a larger company.”
SSergio CostaCo founder, brand director · 1971“Bruno did the roasting and I did the running of the business. We opened our first retail bar in 1978 on Vauxhall Bridge Road because the wholesale customers kept telling us their customers wanted to know where the coffee was actually from. Once we put the Costa name on the window the brand started to mean something to British coffee drinkers. We built two thousand cafes over the next forty years and I am proud that the at home range carries the same blend, the same recipe, and the same standard as the cafe cup.”
Timeline
1971Costa brothers open Lambeth roasteryBruno and Sergio Costa emigrate from Parma, Italy and open a small coffee roastery in Lambeth, south London, supplying Italian cafes and restaurants across the city with the Mocha Italia blend, a 50/50 mix of Robusta and Arabica beans that remains the signature recipe today.
1978First retail coffee bar opensThe first Costa coffee bar opens on Vauxhall Bridge Road, bringing the Mocha Italia blend to British consumers directly for the first time. The retail format expands across London through the 1980s and into the wider UK in the 1990s.
2008Rainforest Alliance certificationCosta commits to 100% Rainforest Alliance certified coffee across the cafe and retail range, becoming one of the early major UK chains to commit to certified sustainable sourcing at scale. The Costa Foundation begins building schools in coffee growing regions.
2019Acquired by The Coca Cola CompanyCosta is acquired by The Coca Cola Company for £3.9 billion, becoming the largest coffee acquisition in UK history. Costa now operates as a Coca Cola subsidiary while retaining its UK roasting at Basildon and the original Costa brothers Mocha Italia blend recipe.
The outer layer is aromatic: a caffeine free infusion of costa maple hazel latte. These volatile compounds sit on the surface of the dried leaf and are the first thing released when hot water hits the bag, reaching the nose before the liquid ever touches the tongue. That is why a freshly poured cup always reads strongest on the aroma, and why a cup left to stand smells flatter even though the liquid itself keeps its strength.
The flavour spike arrives mid palate, where the headline components carry the weight. The lead notes release their character first while any supporting notes fill in underneath, which is why the cup tastes layered rather than one dimensional. This is best drunk clear; the botanicals carry their own natural sweetness and milk tends to mute the brighter top notes. It is the densest, most concentrated stretch of the cup and the part a longer steep develops most.
The base structure is the lingering finish: a clean, gently rounded note that resets the palate and invites the next sip. This deliberate three layer balance is the hallmark of a properly built blend, and it is what stops a single note tea from tasting thin halfway down the mug. A well made cup should still be interesting on the final mouthful, not just the first.
Getting it right in the cup. Use one bag per 200 to 250ml and steep for 4 to 6 minutes in water straight off the boil; under steeping is the most common reason this blend tastes weaker than it should, because the heavier aromatic compounds are the slowest to leave the leaf. Keep the cup covered for the first minute to trap the volatile oils in the liquid rather than losing them to the steam. Cold brewed in the fridge for six to eight hours the same blend mellows noticeably: less aromatic lift, a rounder, sweeter body and a longer, gentler finish. Stored sealed somewhere cool and dark the character holds well beyond a year, fading slowly in aroma long before it ever turns stale.
How water and temperature change it. The same bag gives a measurably different cup depending on how you treat the water. Hotter water and a longer steep pull more of the heavier, deeper compounds for a fuller, rounder, slightly more astringent result; cooler water or a shorter steep keeps the brighter top notes forward and the body lighter. Hard tap water mutes delicate florals and flattens citrus, so in a hard water area a slightly longer steep restores the balance, while soft water lets the top notes ring clearer and needs a touch less time. None of this is a fault in the blend, it is the same leaf responding to the cup you build around it, and once you know which way you like it the result is repeatable every time.
Ingredients & pack
Ingredient
Proportion
What it brings
Skimmed Milk Powder
26.5%
Sourced from the UK and Europe for a creamy body and dense foam structure.
Glucose Syrup
present
Used to enhance texture and provide a smooth consistency in every mug.
Coconut Oil
present
Provides creaminess and lipid stability sourced from tropical regions.
Instant Coffee
7%
A blend of instant coffee and finely ground roasted beans from Rainforest Alliance regions.
Pack: Costa Maple Hazel Latte, 5 Sachets 85g; caffeine free infusion. Best within 18 months of the pack date.
Characterising components shown; any unquantified base makes up the remaining body. Globally sourced, blended and packed to brand specification.
Sourcing & blend. Costa Maple Hazel Latte, 5 Sachets 85g is put together by Costa, held to a fixed quality and purity specification. Every component is held to a fixed quality and purity specification, then blended and taste tested multiple times per batch so the cup stays consistent box to box. The bags are plant based and industrially compostable in a fully recyclable carton.
What's in Costa Maple Hazel Latte, 5 Sachets 85g, and what isn't:
In: a caffeine free infusion of costa maple hazel latte, with nothing in the bag but the listed components and any infusion base.
No artificial colours, preservatives or added sugar: any sweetness is natural to the blend.
Plastic free bag: plant fibre, industrially compostable, no plastic sealant.
Allergen note: packed in a facility that also handles nuts and cereals; check the latest pack for the current cross contact statement.
Nutrition per cup
Nutrient
Per cup
% RI
Energy
4 kJ / 1 kcal
<1%
Fat
0g
0%
Carbohydrate
0.2g
<1%
of which sugars
0g
0%
Protein
0.2g
<1%
Salt
0g
0%
Caffeine
60-100 mg
n/a
Per 200ml cup, no milk, no sugar.
Caffeine vs other drinks
Decaf coffee
4mg
Green tea
30mg
Costa Maple Hazel Latte, 5
100mg
Instant coffee
80mg
Brewed filter coffee
95mg
Energy drink (250ml)
80mg
This tea: 60-100 mg per 200ml cup.
Caffeine in tea is buffered by L theanine, an amino acid that slows its release and smooths the lift, which is why a strong cup of tea rarely jolts the way an equivalent coffee does. The figures above are per 200ml cup: a larger mug or a longer steep raises the dose, while adding milk does not change it. Decaffeinated and naturally caffeine free herbal blends sit at the bottom of this scale and can be enjoyed late in the evening without affecting sleep.
Allergens, dietary & safety
🌱VegetarianSuitable for vegetarian diets.🌾Gluten freeNaturally gluten free.⚡Caffeine60-100 mg per 200ml cup.🍃0 kcalNo sugar, no fat in plain cup.🤰PregnancyUK guide: 200mg caffeine/day max.👶ChildrenCaffeinated, served with care.
Manufactured in a facility that handles multiple tea types. Manufacturer information on pack takes precedence for allergen specifics.
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Questions about Costa Maple Hazel Latte, 5 Sachets 85g
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Curated from real customer messages
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How do I make Costa Maple Hazel Latte? Most asked+
Empty one sachet (17g) into a 250ml mug, top with 200ml just off boil water, stir vigorously for ten seconds until fully dissolved. For an indulgent autumn evening version: use hot milk instead of water and top with whipped cream + chopped hazelnut + a maple syrup drizzle for cafe grade presentation.
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What's in the sachet? +
Skimmed milk powder, sugar, Costa Mocha Italia coffee (50/50 Robusta + Arabica), maple syrup flavouring, hazelnut flavouring, glucose syrup, hydrogenated vegetable oil (foam aid), and emulsifiers/stabilisers. Suitable for vegetarians, contains dairy.
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Is it caffeinated? +
Yes, real Costa Mocha Italia coffee delivering approximately 70-90mg caffeine per cup. Roughly equivalent to a standard cup of brewed coffee. Daytime friendly; works as a morning or afternoon cup.
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Is it vegan? +
No, contains skimmed milk powder. Suitable for vegetarians. For a vegan version, brew Costa instant coffee in hot oat milk and add separately maple syrup + a hazelnut milk or hazelnut syrup.
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Does it contain real hazelnuts? +
The hazelnut character comes from hazelnut flavouring rather than ground hazelnuts. The cup tastes authentically nutty but is suitable for some people with nut sensitivities (check the allergens statement on the pack). If you have a true tree nut allergy, please check the manufacturer's allergens declaration.
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Is it a seasonal product? +
Yes, traditionally stocked as a limited edition autumn into winter seasonal. The maple hazelnut profile matches autumn cafe culture. Often available in the Costa range from September through January, but stock may vary by year and retailer.
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How does it compare to the cafe Costa Maple Hazel Latte? +
The cafe version uses fresh steamed milk, fresh espresso, real maple syrup drizzle, and chopped hazelnut on top. The sachet version delivers the same flavour profile at home in 30 seconds for around £0.84 vs £4.50+ at the counter. Quality is close but the cafe still has the texture edge.
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How does it compare to Salted Caramel Latte? +
Salted Caramel is year round, salt balanced caramel. Maple Hazel is seasonal coded, maple + nutty hazelnut. Different flavour directions; Maple Hazel works particularly well in autumn winter; Salted Caramel works year round.
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How much sugar per cup? +
Approximately 11g per cup, slightly lower than Salted Caramel (12g) and Millionaires Mocha (14g) but higher than Creamy Cappuccino (9g). Dessert leaning afternoon cup level.
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Can I make it iced? +
Yes, particularly good for early autumn warm day mornings. Brew strong in 100ml hot water, top with 100ml cold milk and ice. Optional maple drizzle on top. Less common as an iced order than Salted Caramel but works.
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How long does the carton last? +
Each sachet has its own use by date stamped on the foil pouch, typically 12 months from manufacture. Once opened, each sachet is single serving. Unopened sachets keep in a cool dry cupboard.
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Is the coffee Rainforest Alliance certified? +
Yes, Costa coffee across the at home and cafe ranges is Rainforest Alliance certified since 2008, supporting growers in protected biodiversity zones.
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Is the packaging recyclable? +
Outer carton FSC certified card, kerbside recyclable. Inner sachet foil pouches not generally kerbside recyclable; check local council for foil pouch or mixed soft plastic collection.
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the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
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