The serendipitous combination of soft serve ice cream and flavored ice — better known as gelati to millions of frozen dessert fans — has farrived in grocery stores with the launch of Turkey Hill Dairy’s Duetto. The product is available in four flavors and features vanilla soft serve ice cream swirled with the Dairy’s signature cherry, lemon, raspberry or mango Venice ice.

Duetto is the result of over a year of development as the recipe was refined and tested to withstand the colder temperatures of grocery store and at-home freezers — typically 10 degrees Fahrenheit or lower. Until now, no major ice cream manufacturer has been able to distribute a flavored ice and ice cream product like Duetto. That’s because traditional gelati desserts, like those sold by vendors or specialty shops, require the ice and soft serve ice cream to be stored separately and at slightly warmer temperatures than traditional freezers.

Turkey Hill Ice Cream fans got a taste of Duetto when it was test marketed as Cherry Gelati and released as a Limited Edition flavor for three months in the fall of 2006. During that time, and in recent sampling events, customer response to Duetto has been, according to Frey, “overwhelmingly positive.” At the annual Pennsylvania Farm Show in January, the Turkey Hill team distributed over 55,000 samples of Duetto during the weeklong event.