Cider weather and the holiday season come to mind immediately after the first sip of Plum Coffee’s gingerbread chai latte. The traditional tea and coffee flavors of a chai latte are blended with gingerbread flavoring for a distinctive experience. The drink costs $4, $4.50 and $5 for small, medium and large sizes, respectively. Plum Coffee, which opened in Cypress in 2012, offers the gingerbread chai latte every fall, starting around the end of August or the beginning of September. Instead of conventional, corn syrup-based sweeteners, the gingerbread latte, as well as other drinks on the menu, is made with a sugar cane-based sweetener. “It’s a little more flavor, less corn syrup,” barista Shawn Jamal said. “You don’t have to use as much, and the flavor is perfect.” Plum Coffee 11688 Barker Cypress Road, Cypress 281-256-9400 www.facebook.com/plumcoffeecypress Hours: Mon.-Fri. 5 a.m.-7 p.m., Sat. 6 a.m.-7 p.m., Sun. 7 a.m.-5 p.m.