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Taste is absolutely linked with temperature. Cold vs hot coffee for example. Don’t know exactly why. Most things tend to taste “more” when hot. Could be the intensity of molecular activity, which is what temperature is, that varies and so registers more or less strongly with our taste preceptors

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This can be more readily observed with food IMO. Hot pizza tastes way better than cold pizza (though, of course, cold pizza still tastes great)

I'd guess much of this difference is also due to the fats in the cheese & meats solidifying at cold temperatures, and thus less readily coating taste receptors.

Or why kids tend to let their ice cream melt into “soup”, it tastes sweeter when warm

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