The phrase "a taste for the summer" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to express a preference or enjoyment of summer-related activities, experiences, or flavors.
Example: "She has always had a taste for the summer, enjoying long days at the beach and barbecues with friends."
Alternatives: "an affinity for summer" or "a love for summer".
His wife is Burgundian, but for red wines he admits a taste for the 1982 and 1985 Chteau Ducru-Beaucaillou and Chteau Loville- Las-Cases from Bordeaux he has in his cellar.
They were introduced to famous dealers like Mathias Komor, and they discovered a taste for the simpler, earlier Song ceramics and the archaic Shang bronzes and jades, as well as the more ornate -- and more popular -- Ming porcelain.
Iranians have always possessed a taste for the ambitious project though, and from 1927 to 1939 ingenuity and sweat drove Trans-Iranian Railway lines from Tehran out to its coasts.
They already produced superb wines of balance and restraint, and, like many in the wine vanguard, they had developed a taste for the wines of the Jura in the last decade.
And if you're looking for a lush fruit aroma - peach, lychee and passionfruit - with that signature petroleum finish usually found in European wines from the same varietals, ask for a taste of the 2011 wines.
Uruguay retained their title in 1917, developing a taste for the tournament they enjoy to this day.
He has a taste for the legions of men who are known today, with a curl of the lip, as losers — or, as he writes about a semipro football team in Amarillo, Tex., that he joins in homage to George Plimpton, "dudes grasping at the frayed end of the rope of hope".
Instead of running toward trends, the contrarian makes decisions based upon personal tastes... and, as I wrote earlier, with a taste for the less traveled road.
In Front Royal, it was for lunch and a taste of the 1950's at the Royal Dairy, which opened in 1948 and still has the same décor.
One day the aunt shows up, unexpectedly healthy, and develops a taste for roulette… However, the second half charts the narrator's descent into a compulsive gambling addiction, with all the attendant self-deception and swings between wild hope and despair.
