About Torani
Torani traces back to 1925, when Rinaldo and Ezilda Torre began hand-crafting syrups from recipes they brought from Lucca, Italy, to the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco. The first five flavors were Anisette, Grenadine, Lemon, Orgeat and Tamarindo. After Prohibition ended in 1933, Ezilda became one of the first female rectifiers of distilled spirits in the United States and led the company through the Great Depression and World War II. The brand's turn toward coffee came in 1982, when its vanilla syrup was used in what Torani describes as the first flavored latte, pushing the company to focus on the specialty coffee trade; by 1994 it had expanded into cafes and bars worldwide.
The company, legally R. Torre & Company, has grown from its original five syrups to a catalog of more than 150 flavors sold globally, spanning its Original Syrup, Sugar Free Syrup and Puremade Syrup lines, sauces, and variety packs built for sampling. Torani is a Certified B Corporation. In our own coffee syrup reviews, the brand's Coffeehouse Variety Pack carried an ingredient panel of cane sugar, water and natural flavors with no high fructose corn syrup. The three single-flavor pump bottles we also reviewed are sweetened with pure cane sugar too.
Brand website: torani.com
What Torani makes
Torani's range runs wider than the products we review. The lines that earned places in our roundups are marked with a star:
Original Syrup
the classic cane sugar syrup line sold in glass bottles; our featured Coffeehouse and Cafe Variety Packs are from this line (featured on Brew Gazette)
Coffee Syrup Pump Bottles
a newer plastic-bottle format with a built-in pump, also made with cane sugar; our featured vanilla, caramel and pumpkin spice pumps are from this line (featured on Brew Gazette)
Variety Packs
multi-flavor sampler sets across Torani's syrup lineup
Sugar Free Syrup
a zero-sugar syrup line in Torani's wider catalog
Puremade Syrup
a syrup line in Torani's wider product catalog
Sauce
dessert and drink sauces sold alongside the syrup lineup
Why we recognized Torani
The Brew Gazette Top Brand recognition isn't paid for and can't be applied for. We award it to the brands whose products consistently stand out in our category roundups. Torani earned it on the strength of the products below, evaluated the same way every product on this site is: checked against the specs, brewing standards and verified buyer reviews, and judged on what matters in the cup.
Torani products we rated highly
Torani Flavored Drink Syrup Coffeehouse Variety Pack, 25.4 fl oz, Set of 4
Four full-size glass bottles in the flavors people reach for most, Classic Caramel, French Vanilla, Vanilla and Classic Hazelnut, with an ingredient panel of cane sugar, water and natural flavors and no high fructose corn syrup. Buyers use it across espresso, cold brew and matcha, not just drip coffee, which is the behavior of a syrup with enough flavor concentration to survive being diluted by milk and ice.
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Torani Flavored Drink Syrup Cafe Variety Pack, 12.7 fl oz, Set of 4
Half-size glass bottles across four flavors, Vanilla, Salted Caramel, Classic Hazelnut and French Vanilla, using the same cane sugar formulation as the full-size Torani glass line. The flavor set leans toward milk drinks, and the controlled pour spout on these bottles is a genuine stand-in for a pump at this bottle size.
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Torani Coffee Syrup, Vanilla Flavored Syrup for Drinks, Pump Included, 25.4 Fl Oz
A cane sugar vanilla syrup with no artificial sweeteners that ships with a pump designed for its own bottle neck, which removes the fit problems that show up when a pump is an afterthought. Buyers reach for it for vanilla sweet cream cold foam, a cold, dairy-heavy, undiluted use that gives a syrup nowhere to hide any harshness.
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Torani Coffee Syrup, Classic Caramel Flavor, Pump Included, 25.4 Fl Oz
Made with pure cane sugar and built with restraint rather than pushed to maximum sweetness, so buyers compare it to a coffee-shop caramel latte rather than a candy-aisle syrup. It ships with the same fitted pump as its vanilla sibling in the line.
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Torani Coffee Syrup, Pumpkin Spice Flavor, Pump Included, 25.4 Fl Oz
A cane sugar syrup rather than a dairy- or starch-thickened sauce, which is what lets it dissolve into iced coffee instead of settling at the bottom of the glass. It ships with a fitted pump and offers a single full-size bottle as an alternative to the seasonal multi-packs pumpkin spice is usually sold in.
Read our Coffee Syrups guide →What earned Torani the recognition
- A century-old family syrup maker: founded in 1925 in San Francisco by Rinaldo and Ezilda Torre on recipes carried over from Lucca, Italy, and still operating today as R. Torre & Company.
- In our coffee syrup reviews, the Coffeehouse Variety Pack's ingredient panel read cane sugar, water and natural flavors, with no high fructose corn syrup, and the three single-flavor pump bottles we reviewed are sweetened with pure cane sugar as well.
- Certified B Corporation status, a third-party sustainability and governance certification the brand holds as a company.
- Five Torani products earned a place across our coffee syrup reviews: two multi-flavor glass variety packs sized for either daily use or sampling, and three single-flavor pump bottles covering vanilla, caramel and pumpkin spice.
- A catalog that has grown from the original five syrups in 1925 to more than 150 flavors sold globally, spanning glass-bottle Original Syrup, sugar free syrup, sauces and variety packs.