"Our wines are made from the melted snows of the Tianshan Mountains, and the environment is perfect for making wine. Also, the air is dry, so there are fewer insects and less need for pesticides. Add all this to the clean air, and the results are wines that are very clean, fresh and easy to drink."

With a quality assurance such as this, its bottles went quickly at the InterContinental.

However, the company has expanded beyond dealing exclusively in Chinese wines to selling imported ones as well. 1421 Wines ships in many wines, such as a semi-sweet moscato white wine, produced and bottled by Bosio Family Estates in Italy, and a carmenere produced by San Pedro in Chile.

When Zheng was sailing the high seas, he would often bring ambassadors from other countries back to China.

And 1421 Wines also brings wine "ambassadors" to China.