Everything began in 1879 when Eduard Andrejevich Junge (1833 — 1898), a famous ophthalmologist, academician of Petrovskaya Academy, bought from a local landowner Bakhtysh Murza Shyrinskyi 973 dessiatinas of land (2,627 acres or 10,508 square kilometers)

On the slopes of Koktebel hills he planted the vineyard and began to build a winery with sophisticated irrigational constructions. This event is considered to be the starting point in Koktebel viniculture chronicles.

His son, Alexander Eduardowich Junge, took over his father’s work on the revival of viniculture. Having studied wine-growing in Spain, Italy, Germany and France he finished building the winery with big cellars in his father’s estate. In 1923-1924 a first state farm was created in Otuzy.  In the spring of 1930 the population of the valley joined the two artels. Voroshilov collective farm was created in the village of Verkhnije Otuzy, and Kirov collective farm in Nizhnije Otuzy, the main specialization of which were viniculture and tobacco cultivation. After the liberation of the Crimea from fascists in 1944 the spared vineyard plantations were situated in the latter halves of mountains and along the bank of the river Otuzka. A step-by-step reconstruction of viniculture was in store. In 1944 collective farms were transformed into state farm-factory Koktebel.

In 1945 Mikhail Andrejevich Makedonskiy (1904-1971) was appointed the state farm manager. However, at that time it was not a state farm, there was only a need to create one.  The created state farm was supposed to deal with vine-growing, although all over the neighbourhood including Shebetovskaya and Koktebelskaya plains there were no more than 200 hectares of vineyards. The renovation of production began on the slopes of the valley where every span of land was repeatedly tilled from generation to generation by vine-growers. Today it is a precious heritage received from the previous state farm Koktebel, joint-stock Koktebel distillery tries to increase both quantity and quality.