The invention discloses a method for rapidly identifying the years of production of lycium barbarum by gustation finger-prints. The method comprises the following steps: selecting samples of lycium barbarum produced in different years, adding cooled boiled water at temperature of 60-80 DEG C into the lycium barbarum samples at a set solid-to-liquid ratio of 1:15 to 1:25, extracting for 5-15 minutes, filtering to obtain leach liquor of gustation matters, contacting an electronic tongue sensor array with the sample leach liquor so as to obtain sensor responding signals, extracting characteristic data from the gustation finger-prints, establishing correlation between the gustation finger-prints and the years of production by virtue of multiple linear regression analysis, and establishing a module for predicating the years of production, thus realizing the purpose of rapidly identifying the years of production of the lycium barbarum by the gustation finger-prints. With the adoption of the method, the detection difficulty caused by the fact that external characters of lycium barbarum are similar, and the detection on internal bioactive constituents is complicated and wastes time is solved, the lycium barbarum produced in different years can be conveniently, rapidly and objectively evaluated, and therefore, the basis is provided for accurately, rapidly and reliably detecting medicinal values of lycium barbarum.