Wine Is Confusing

My Mom sent a clipping from Vintages (a wine-marketing magazine from the LBCO) about Washington and British Columbia wines.

Columbia Crest 'Grand Estates' Merlot 2002...The nose is a bit shy at first before unveiling notes of Oreo cookie, black cherries, oak spice and cedar. Brace your lips, though, for an explosion of sweet, dark and rich fruit - black cherries, plums, and marionberries - joined by tannins with some grip. Then there's the finish, as remarkable and smooth and complex as you will find with cherries, cinnamon, blueberries, and cococa.

What on Earth does that mean? I thought listening to golf commentary was intense, but reading that is a whole other magnitude of psychedelic.