El vino tinto cuesta cinco euros.

Spanish often uses the definite article more than English does.

• El vino tinto = the red wine
• Vino tinto = red wine

In a full sentence like this, el makes it sound like a specific item, product, or serving being referred to. For example, in a restaurant, El vino tinto cuesta cinco euros can mean The red wine costs five euros or Red wine is five euros, depending on context.

Spanish is more comfortable than English with using the for general categories too, so this sounds very natural.

In Spanish, most adjectives come after the noun.

• vino tinto = red wine
• literally: wine red

This is the normal word order in Spanish. English usually puts adjectives before the noun, but Spanish usually places them after it.

Other examples:

• vino blanco = white wine
• coche rojo = red car
• casa grande = big house

Tinto means red when talking about wine.

So:

• vino tinto = red wine
• vino blanco = white wine

Important: tinto is not the usual everyday word for the color red in general. The normal word for red is rojo. But with wine, Spanish uses tinto, not rojo.

So you would say:

• un coche rojo = a red car
• vino tinto = red wine

Not:

• vino rojo (this would sound unnatural in standard Spanish)

Because the verb is costar = to cost, and in the present tense it changes in the stem.

The o changes to ue in some forms:

• cuesto
• cuestas
• cuesta
• costamos
• costáis
• cuestan

So:

• El vino tinto cuesta cinco euros = The red wine costs five euros

This is a common type of stem-changing verb in Spanish.

Because the subject is singular: el vino tinto.

In Spanish, the verb agrees with the subject.

• El vino tinto cuesta... = singular subject, singular verb
• Los vinos tintos cuestan... = plural subject, plural verb

So if you changed the subject to plural, the verb would also change:

• Los vinos tintos cuestan cinco euros

Because the number is greater than one, so the noun must be plural.

• un euro
• dos euros
• cinco euros

This works just like in English:

• one euro
• five euros

Yes. In Spain, valer is very common for prices.

So both are correct:

• El vino tinto cuesta cinco euros
• El vino tinto vale cinco euros

In many situations, vale sounds very natural in everyday speech. Both mean basically the same thing here: it costs / it is worth five euros.

No. After costar, you give the amount directly.

Correct:

• Cuesta cinco euros
• Cuesta diez euros

Not:

• cuesta de cinco euros

So the structure is simply:

subject + costar + amount

A simple pronunciation guide is:

el BEE-no TEEN-toh KWEHS-tah THEEN-koh EH-oo-ros

A few useful notes for Spain Spanish:

• v in vino sounds very similar to b
• cu in cuesta sounds like kwe
• c before i in cinco is pronounced like the th in think in most of Spain
• eu in euros is pronounced as a diphthong, roughly eh-oo

If you are learning Latin American Spanish, cinco would usually sound more like SEEN-ko, not THEEN-ko.

Yes, it can. Context matters.

Depending on the situation, it could mean:

• The red wine costs five euros
• Red wine is five euros
• The red wine costs five euros per glass / bottle if that is understood from the context

For example, on a menu or in a restaurant, Spanish often uses the definite article in a general way:

• El café cuesta dos euros
• La cerveza cuesta tres euros

This does not always mean one unique specific object. It can simply refer to that item on the menu.

Normally, no. That sounds incomplete or unnatural in standard Spanish.

You would usually say either:

• El vino tinto cuesta cinco euros
• Un vino tinto cuesta cinco euros

The choice depends on meaning:

• el vino tinto = the red wine / red wine as the item being discussed
• un vino tinto = a red wine / one red wine

Spanish generally needs an article or determiner here.

Because the main verb here is cuesta = costs.

The sentence is not built like:

• The red wine is five euros

Instead, Spanish is saying:

• The red wine costs five euros

So cuesta already does the job of the main verb. You do not need es.

You would change the article, noun, adjective, and verb:

• El vino tinto cuesta cinco euros
• Los vinos tintos cuestan cinco euros

Changes:

• el → los
• vino → vinos
• tinto → tintos
• cuesta → cuestan

This means The red wines cost five euros.

Yes, that is a very good idea.

Vino tinto and vino blanco are extremely common set phrases in Spanish. Even though you can analyze them grammatically, it helps to learn them as ready-made vocabulary:

• vino tinto = red wine
• vino blanco = white wine
• vino rosado = rosé wine

Learning common combinations as chunks makes speaking and understanding much easier.