Curelato is The Cure Company's house selection of Gelato #33, pulled from a phenotype hunt the company says took five years. The genetics behind it are the established Gelato pairing — Thin Mint GSC and Sunset Sherbet — and the brand's own hook is fruity cereal with sharp minty undertones.
Where It Comes From
This is a selection story, not a breeding story, and the difference matters. The Cure Company did not make a new cross. It went looking inside an existing one.
The company's product copy calls Curelato a very special pheno of Gelato #33 that took five years to perfect, and its descriptions elsewhere reference phenotyping hundreds of seeds to land on the combination of flavor, potency, and quality it wanted. Five years is a long time to spend inside a single cross, and it explains why the brand treats Curelato as a house cultivar rather than another Gelato on the menu.
That also sets the credit correctly. Broader Gelato history belongs to the Bay Area breeding and selection work associated with Sherbinskis and the Cookies circle — Gelato #33, also known as Larry Bird, came out of that ecosystem. The Cure Company's contribution is the selection and the branded flower built around it.
Worth noting for anyone typing it into a menu search: the spelling is Curelato, one word, no h.
The Cross
The Cure Company describes Curelato as a combination of Thin Mint GSC and Sunset Sherbet, which is the documented parentage behind Gelato #33 rather than a separate cross of its own. Curelato is a selection within that family, one layer down from the numbered phenotype.
Sunset Sherbet contributes fruit, citrus, cream, earth, and kush-like depth. Thin Mint GSC brings mint, cookie dough, sweetness, spice, and fuel. Gelato #33 is the numbered expression of that pairing, and Curelato is a narrower cut inside it.
In the jar the opening reads as sweet cereal, berry, or creamy fruit, followed by cool mint, cookie dough, and an earthy or gassy floor. Some batches land brighter and sweeter, others heavier and more kush-like. That is family resemblance, not a formula — cultivation, harvest timing, drying, cure, storage, and age all decide which notes dominate.
The Cure Company sells Curelato as bigs, smalls, minis, and blended formats, and markets it as chunky indoor flower selected for quality. Gelato-family expressions commonly show dense green-to-purple buds, orange pistils, and heavy trichome coverage, though size and color shift across grades and harvests.
What It Left Behind
What is documented here is commercial reach rather than hardware: consistent availability across California and out-of-state menus, in multiple formats, all off the strength of one selection. That is a real achievement in a market where most house cuts get one season.
The brand frames the experience as a powerful body high with an uplifting quality, which reads as a mood lift developing into more noticeable physical weight — a hybrid that works better in the late afternoon than first thing. The THC figure on any listing belongs to the tested lot, not to the cultivar.
The High Rise Take
Fruity cereal, cream, mint, and berry over an earthy gas floor, out of a five-year hunt inside Gelato #33. If the mint side is what pulls you, Thin Mint GSC is where it comes from.