Though wines may range from sweet to dry. This is because of the tannin which gives the wine its full bodied flavour. When the wine is in your mouth, more than one flavour may become apparent. After the wine leaves your mouth, additional tastes may surface. Here are some terms that can be used to describe the flavours your mouth experiences while wine tiptoes through your tastebuds.
Body is a term that covers a lot of ground.
Good wines that have aged well will be complex wines. Dry is used to describe a wine that is not sweet. Earthy describes a wine that tastes of the soil in which it was grown. Red wines, most often, have this characteristic. So wine could taste ferny, or mossy, or might remind you of wet mud after it has rained for the first time.