Peach, chocolate, and blackberry and more are often easy to find.
If you taste with your nose as well as your mouth. But if you taste
just with your mouth, you have only four or five choices (various
degrees of them, of course) - an oligochromatic, unenviable life
that might be correctable with surgery.
Heck, a good/bad binary is equally unfulfilling.
You should, rather, swirl lightly and briefly, take a brief sniff, and short
taste, look across at your date and give a light smile: not a knowing
smirk, but rather a small grin that says "I am having a good time and
this wine adds to it."
Even the light smile is a dubious gesture, unless your date is really
understanding.
I've had a few American wines (mostly from California), and I'm not
impressed by any of them
Name them, in e-mail perhaps - a blanket statement like that bespeaks
lack of (the right kind of) experience. 'course, if you have Bundy, who
needs wine at all.