The phrase "a fair taste" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a moderate or reasonable level of appreciation or enjoyment of something, often in the context of food, art, or experiences.
Example: "After trying the new dish, I can say it has a fair taste, balancing flavors without being overwhelming."
Alternatives: "a decent flavor" or "a reasonable taste".
I'd say this encounter gives a fair taste of the tone of the dozens of meetings over the past year between News Corporation honchos and the prime minister, the chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, Hunt and other cabinet members.
In case this title did not make its point, a subtitle gave the reader a fair taste of its contents: A Specimen of the Many Errors, as Well Committed, as Unamended, by Mr Pope in his Late Edition of this Poet.
We drove the H2 for a few hours both on- and off-road, and based on that brief impression, we have a fair taste (albeit not a definitive one) of what owning one would be like.
The candidates must be, at all costs, put on an equal playing field like two competing flavors of vanilla ice cream at a county fair taste-off.
We'd seen "The Jetsons," toured the 1964 World's Fair, tasted the culinary fruits (or at least fruit flavors) of the space program, and all signs pointed to a single outcome: the meal in a pill, washed down, perhaps, with next-generation Tang.
But theatre is brutally binary; it either works or it doesn't, and no one with a fair mind and a taste for the theatrical can deny that this show works.
These same two forms of cutting are observable in glass of the 5th century excavated at Kish in Mesopotamia; it is a fair assumption that Byzantine taste in glass, as in some of the other arts, was strongly influenced by the East.
But for many in the music industry the list was considered a fair reflection of popular tastes for an awards show that is sometimes known for left-field choices.
Soup happens to be a food that needs a fair amount of salt to taste good, so even though these are moderate in sodium as soups go, a typical day's worth adds up to more than 3,100 milligrams, not including added snacks.
Given the shortlist that emerged was a fair approximation of our discussions and tastes, it read rightly and reasonably.
Even though we very much liked the three Vouvrays in our tasting, for example, a fair amount of sparkling Vouvray is made as sort of a dumping ground for grapes less than ripe or otherwise imperfect.
