How am I supposed to be able to tell if a wine is floral or fruity, and do these adjectives matter?

Wines tend to include a lot of different aromatic notes, which can be really pleasant if you know what you're doing. I, on the other hand, do not.

Harbertson suggested doing the following exercise to sharpen your senses before the next time you try a glass of wine:

1. Grab a couple of bags of multi-flavored jelly beans and sort them into different cups by flavor. Put them away for a couple of days — or hours, if you're in a time crunch — so you forget the process.

2.Later, take out the beans and try to guess which one is which flavor.

3. Then, try a couple of different-flavored beans at once. Now try to guess what you got. That's kind of what wine tasting is like: It's all about picking out the different flavors and aromas, like that of a strawberry, even if you're not actually eating a strawberry.