I just tried the talenti caribbean coconut gelato and it reminded me of my gorgeous island of puerto rico! It was a lil to pricey but I luved it! Would luv to try the other flavors!

I tried the coconut and it's really too sweet, too much sugar!
It does taste like ice cream and not gelato. Your right you'll never get the real taste of gelato in the states.

I just love Talenti gelatos, so much better than premium ice creams. My favorit is the double dark chocolate and coconut. I have tried the cookie crunch and I didnt care too much for it. I did like the vanilla bean as well and Belgian chocolate. I will keep buying them and recently Publix has them buy 1 get 1 free, I almost died I was so excited LOL

I didn't try all of the flavors but I've tried most (I work catering part time and we use talenti gelato in one of our deserts).

The vanilla and coconut are good, but in my opinion, not worth the price b/c they do taste like regular ice cream... not that creamy at all.

HOWEVER... the belgium milk chocolate flavor is one of the best things I have ever put in my freaking mouth. jesus... so creamy and other than the authentic atmosphere you might enjoy while eating gelato made in Italy, I would bet that there is nothing better. I'm a huge milk chocolate fan though (not dark).

They have blood orange flavor at my Publix now and a bunch of other new ones lately too. So far nothing has sparked enough interest for me to stray from the belguim milk choc. Save up penny by penny if you have to to try this... its so worth it.

Worst flavor IMO: rasberry sorbet. someone above me said it has too much flavor... thats a good description. its super sweet and super tart.

This is an inferior brand of ice cream.
I had the "Double Dark" Chocolate and the Caramel Cookie Crunch and found them both to be subpar products.

The chocolate was not especially chocolaty - it just had a weak malted taste. The Caramel had a strange off-taste; maybe it was the powdered milk mentioned above.

The products did not have the dense richness of any local gelato I've had. Gelato is supposed to be very dense with very little air. Talenti seemed to have as much air as any American ice cream, but I can't say with certainty.

It also has lots of ingredients that have no business in a super premium product like this: powdered milk, dextrose, wheat flour, sunflower oil, baking soda, guar gum, corn starch, soy, lecithin.

My wife and I both agreed that one taste of this was enough. This stuff is best forgotten.

I've had dbl choc, belgian choc, vanilla and coconut. It's my favorite right now, I crave this stuff!

i have to say i am a little dissapointed in this review of talenti for a few different reasons... firstly because you will never be able to actually compare gelato in america with gelato in italy at the same time so you cannot give an objective opinion on which one tastes better not to mention talenti is a mass produced product not individually made every day and as you admitted yourself you did have some poor tasting gelato in italy which completely nullifies your assertion that you should save yourself for gelato in italy... secondly as far as the color of the sorbet and quality the color is pretty close to what a smashed raspberry looks like so i would say that the version you had in italy was probably a cheaper version with more water and other ingredients in it to make it a lighter color... thirdly calling a frozen treat gelato as opposed to ice cream, the only difference between the two should be the consistency the name gelato in itself has nothing to do with the taste but only with the fact that gelato has a lower fat content and higher sugar content making it creamier and sweeter which ties into the reason the chocolate is usually harder than vanilla because where as a vanilla bean has little to no fat chocolate does have an extremely high fat content so when you puree chocolate with cream and freeze it then it will be harder unless you adjust the fat content of the dairy accordingly which almost nobody does

so in conclusion i am not trying to completely bash your review because i agree talenti gelato is not the best gelato i have ever had but i do completely disagree with the reasons you gave for discrediting it because the you never addressed the qualities that make it a gelato while saying it does not deserve to be called a gelato... flavor and quality of ingredients have nothing to do with gelato only to do with if you like it or not

The first flavor I tried was the Belgian Milk Chocolate -- I was in Italy two months ago and this flavor of Talenti was the closest thing I'd found in the US to authentic gelato. SO GOOD. I couldn't wait to try all the other flavors. I've tried Toasted Almond, Vanilla Bean, and Dulce de Leche. Total disappointment. The Almond and Vanilla completely lacked that essential Gelato-ness -- Haagen Dazs would have been just as good if not better. Even more disappointing -- I found the Dulce de Leche to be almost completely inedible -- it tasted like cheap, Kraft bagged caramels. Gag. I actually threw most of it away -- can't remember the last time I threw away ice cream! I'll be buying the milk chocolate again, but I probably won't even be trying the other flavors.

Check this stuff out. This girl is from my hometown in PA. She fights for shelve space in stores next to Talenti. I found this review this morning.
http://www.scordo.com/2011/02/gelato-review-gelato-di-babbo-gelati.html

I just tried the Talenti Pistachio. Terrible. Strong powdered milk taste. Bland and sweet. The only thing good were the pistachios in it.

For $6 a pint, I expected a better product and decided to search the internet to see what other people had to say about Talenti gelatos.

I have been wondering what others experience has been with this product. I broke down, when the Talenti was on sale, and brought the Cappuccino. That is the flavor I like the best, period. I was overflowing with excictment and couldn't wait to dig into this Gelato, Sorbetto or whatever you want to call it. My first spoonful tasted like____. It had to be one of the worst tasting things I have ever tasted. I was shocked and surprised. One of things that tempted me to want to try it in the first place was the packaging. I figured that the outside was an indication of what was inside. Was I wrong. It didn't even have a coffee, cappuccino taste at all. It was really nasty and gross. I'm serious, I'm not trying to be funny nor am I going overboard. I thought that I might have gotten a bad batch, or in shipping it had spoiled or something. So I put it back in the freezer and wrote the company and told them of my experience. They ask me for the batch date etc. and said they wanted to give it to their lab or whoever handles this aspect of their production and they would get back to me. They also promised that they were going to send me some coupons because I wanted to try some of their other flavors. I really wanted to like this product. A quick note, I have never been to Italy and so have never tasted this product until now, so I cannot compare like some of you can. I just wanted to eat a good thing. Anyway, I never heard from them again, that was back around the first of May of this year (2011)I wrote them again July 11,2011 and they still haven't gotten back to me. In the mean time, I live in Southern Calif. Since I first wrote them about my experience, I have not seen that flavor,(cappuccion) on any shelve, or in the store that I first purchesed their product in, or in any other store since I first wrote them about my experience. So, of course, I never ate any more of the cappuccion again but I did keep it. I will keep trying to get a responce from them and I plan on writing them also. I want to give them as much of a benefit of the doubt before I find a lab that will check the jar that I brought. Thought I'd share this with you all.

I love Gelato even though I do not eat eggs, I make an exception for Gelato. I tried double chocolate, and it was mostly a disappointment, not that it was bad, but it just tasted like regular ice cream. I can get the best organic ice cream at half the price and for more flavor. I knew that if the Gelato turned out to be bad, at least I would get a nice jar, and basically, this is all I got for $6 - a nice jar.