Sure, but so is the taste of all other drinks.

Truth

Same goes for pretty much everything. Hot pizza vs cold pizza. Cold ice cream vs melted. Hot coffee vs iced coffee. Warm beer vs cold beer.

Generally when food or drinks are cold, certain flavours and aromas are suppressed completely and others are muted.

Many people prefer cold water because the water they’re drinking contains metallic ions (calcium, magnesium, iron), organics, and chlorine. This stuff can taste and smell (especially the chlorine) quite nasty when warm or hot. On the other hand, if you have a really good water filter you can remove a lot of that stuff and get water that tastes pretty good even when warm or hot.

He’s got a point.

It is also very much defined by what is in it, and what it has been in. Water is known as “the universal solvent” because damn near everything is eroded somewhat by it, which then ends up in the water. That’s why even distilled bottled water has a distinct taste that is different from water from the pipes in your house which is different from freshly filtered water, even if drank at exactly the same temperature.

You’re almost never tasting water. You’re tasting everything in the water. And 100% pure H2O can actually fucking kill you!

i like mine at 25 degrees celcius.

nope. distilled/ro water tastes different than tap, which tastes different than spring, independent of the temperature