The good stuff--dryish, refined, compulsively drinkable--has nothing to do with cold duck or cough-medicine-y, five bucks a pop, small "c" "champagne": Different grapes, different process, a whole different mind-set.
Mr Black said there could well be people - from foreign agents to home-grown lunatics - who might "want a pop at C" the name the head of MI6 is given (the director general of MI5 has not been known by the soubriquet "K" since the 1940s.).