What have the national wine critics had to say this week? Find out with our round up of Wines in the Press for July 10, 11.

INDEPENDENT
Anthony Rose examines the "jaw dropping" prices being achieved by Bordeaux's 2009 vintage, boosted by lavish praise from both the wine trade and the press, and in particular from "American super-critic" Robert Parker.

Average prices rose by 57% over the great 2005 vintage and 200% above 2008. Ironically, says Rose, the ambitious prices make earlier vintages appear cheaper, and in some cases even cheap. "Inconceivable as it seems today, could we one day look back on 2009 and marvel at what great value it was?" he asks.

FINANCIAL TIMES
Jancis Robinson also mulls over the "sky high prices" of Bordeaux's 2009 vintage, which have had even local chateau owners expressing surprise at the figures being commanded. "What is sure is that the 2009 prices make the 2008 vintage look like the bargain of the decade," she says.

Prize for the most ambitious price rises this year goes to the Haut-Brion stable whose opening price of €540 for La Mission Haut-Brion is nearly three times more than the 2005 opening price, while, as usual, the LVMH effect has inflated the price of Cheval Blanc to a "truly luxurious level".

DAILY MAIL
Olly Smith considers the best wines to accompany fish dishes. Pointing out the wide variety of fishy flavours, from light and oily mackerel to chunky monkfish, sea fish, freshwater fish and shell fish, he recommends pairing a white with zesty fresh acidity such as a Sauvignon Blanc, to cut through the oiliness of fish like mackerel, while wines such as Portuguese Vinho Verde make the perfect accompaniment to sardines.

Very pure, fresh fish flavours like sashmi are best suited to Italian whites, and grape varieties such as Verdecchio, he maintains, while smoked fish is better suited to lightly oaked whites such as a Rhone wines blended with grapes such as Marsanne and Roussanne. "A dose of oak goes a long way to stand up to the pungency of flavour," says Smith, pointing out that smoked haddock goes perfectly with a rich oaky Chardonnay from South Africa.

As for meaty fish such as monkfish, tuna or swordfish, you could try lighter reds such as Pinot Noir, Beaujolais, or even Sicilian Nero d'Avola. "I've even been served red mullet matched with Blaufrankisch, which was a surprisingly successful match" he says.

THE TIMES
Jane MacQuitty doesn't buy research from across the pond which shows that novice American drinkers are duped by fancy labels and high price tags. In the findings from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the American Association of Wine Economists, it was revealed that tasters rate wines marked with expensive prices over cheaper bottles, even though the contents were identical.

While MacQuitty concedes that deciphering wine labels can be challenging, "such stories reinforce that traditional, elitist view that drinkers cannot tell the difference between good, bad and appalling wines," she says "I maintain that our wine drinkers can tell the difference and are happy to pay extra for better bottles when they want to splash out."

Her best buys this week include the 2008 Red Burgundy Pinot Noir Reserve, (down to £5.12, Asda), which she says is a "bargain basement red burgundy that oozes light, lively summer damson, plum and spice," and the 2008 See Saw Semillion-Sauvignon Blanc, (£7.99, Waitrose), a "mouthwatering, bold, grassy blend."