Freshly Opened Tennis Balls

One of the assigned readings for last class that we didn't have a chance to get to was the one titled:

Debunking Critics' Wine Words: Can One Distinguish the Smell of Asphalt from the Taste of Cherries?

The subjects of the study were people with affiliations to universities, including business school students, university alumni, etc., so properly people who have had sufficient exposure to wine. The main takeaway of the study was that people could not properly match a critic's description of wine to the actual wine they tasted above random chance.

While I certainly don't have as refined of a palette as others, I'm probably representative of the average wine drinker. And I definitely don't taste flavors like tennis balls, socks or asphalt in my wine. And how much does a wine, particularly a red wine, really smell or taste of such fragrant fruits like strawberries? And do cherries really have a smell that you can match it in your wine?