"strong taste for" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to refer to a preference for something with a powerful flavor. For example, "She has a strong taste for dark chocolate."
I developed a strong taste for encyclopedias in particular.
A "strong" taste for a supertaster is much more intense than a "strong" taste for a nontaster.
Sonia Chávez lamented that Karla seemed to have developed a strong taste for material things.
In "Descent of Man," Darwin states, "Many kinds of monkeys have a strong taste for... spirituous liquors".
"If people have a strong taste for sugar they could switch to fruit juices, milkshakes, chocolate or confectionery.
As for my strong taste for freedom, I have a theory: I think that children from a big family need more freedom, more space for themselves.
The students with the strongest "taste for science" not surprisingly "have a clear preference for academia".
A similar taste-based explanation was advanced by Åstebro and Thompson (2011) who argued that entrepreneurs have stronger taste for variety and tend to have experienced more occupations at the cost of lower earnings.
Thus in our game the first mover advantage has two aspects: 1) the leader can push the follower to contribute (proposition 1), 2) the leader can reduce his own contribution as the follower has a stronger taste for restriction.
From the start, there had been a strong taste in the Colonies for tales of rescues and escapes — local incarnations of those old adventure memoirs.
Some prefer to steep for even longer for a very strong taste.
