 The wine produced here was classified as one of eighteen "Cinquièmes Crus" (Fifth Growths) in the Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855.Ten years following the 1855 classification, the property was purchased by Herman Cruse in 1865, in whose family the estate remained for many years.The Bordeaux wine fraud scandal in 1973 forced the sale, in 1975, of Ponet-Canet to Cognac merchant Guy Tesseron owner of Château Lafon-Rochet.