"refinement of taste" is a correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It refers to the process of improving or developing one's sense of taste, especially in regards to aesthetic preferences. Example: The art museum's collection showcased a wide range of styles and mediums, allowing visitors to cultivate their refinement of taste.
The refinement of taste in fashion shown here seems to be gathering force.
I'm not sure I've seen a trap-set drummer keep a tempo so steadily, even when Mr. Valdes varied his own speed; he could be machinelike, but working at the highest refinement of taste.
The result of criticism is the refinement of taste — that is, a "rational liking" (VEK 15), a "liking for a reason" (VORC 95).
The word does not connote "honesty" in its modern sense but refers rather to an ideal aristocratic moral and social mode of behaviour, a sincere refinement of tastes and manners.
Like the artist himself, they were middle-class professionals from mercantile backgrounds who were doing well and had a keen interest in seeing themselves as a rising genteel elite, an aristocracy not of blood but of a new culture of taste and refinement summed up in the word sensibility.
The edition would be sold by subscription to readers of refinement and taste, of whom he hoped there would be many thousands.
In that respect, the refinement of Daisy's taste is a mystery to Winterbourne's aunt, Mrs. Costello, who pronounces her "hopelessly vulgar" even while conceding to her nephew that "she dresses in perfection".
In that context he was a model of refinement and taste, with no loss of rhapsodic fancy and imagination.
But by 1877 the Trinidad Guardian newspaper was calling for "a refinement of our vulgar tastes".
For the audience, it's a circle that reaffirms your sense of taste and refinement.
When she throws a sordid little party at her apartment, Myrtle becomes "more violently affected moment by moment," as she minces, flounces and raises her eyebrows at the shiftlessness of the lower orders, trying to pass herself off as a woman of taste and refinement – but her vulgarity cannot be disguised.
