When it comes to coffee tasting the most important factors to evaluate are aroma, acidity, body and flavour. However, personal preference also plays an important role. The way our senses perceive a particular coffee is the sum total of the sensations recorded by most of our sense organs. The most important in this case are the senses of taste and smell.
Taste The four different basic tastes, sweet, salty, sour and bitter, are detected on the tongue. Each of these sensations can be mapped to a particular area of the tongue