I tried the TikTok-famous negroni sbagliato drink 'House of the Dragon' star Emma D'Arcy loves. The ingredients cost me $75 but it was worth it.

Viewers have become enamored with D'Arcy's "deep" and "seductive" voice and the chemistry they think is palpable in Cooke-D'Arcy interviews.

On-screen, there may be some weight to this: Emily Carey (who plays the younger version of Cooke's character Alicent and identifies as queer) previously told Insider her initial reaction to the script was that Rhaenyra and Alicent are "in love a little bit," and that the actors played around with this on screen, as Insider's Kim Renfro previously reported.

"It's 100% something we were conscious of," Carey said in August. "And so if it reads on screen, it was purposeful."

The negroni sbagliato is a negroni — Campari, sweet vermouth, and an orange garnish — but with prosecco in replacement of the typical gin. According to Bon Appetit, the cocktail's folklore story is that a bartender accidentally added prosecco to the glass instead of gin one day. In Italian, the word "sbagliato" literally translates to "wrong."

Keen to find out what the internet's current favorite drink actually tastes like, I decided to try my hand at making it.

Gin — herbaceous and pine-like — is my least favorite type of alcohol, though I don't typically mind it in a good (read: balanced) negroni. Typically, though, I order mine with mezcal.

I anticipated liking the negroni sbagliato. After all, we're replacing gin (my least favorite part of the drink) with something I love: a light prosecco.

The ingredients cost me around $75 — but it's worth noting I was buying them from scratch, and a bottle of Campari or sweet vermouth will last me a long time.

If I'm making drinks for a group, this seems like a good option; it's light, requires less than 10 minutes to make, and you don't need to use large quantities of any ingredient aside from maybe, depending on your preferences, prosecco.

If you do plan on using a lot of prosecco, you can also buy an affordable option without much sacrifice in terms of taste, since most of that is coming from the other ingredients.

I made the drink at home following this Food52 recipe (the cocktail is meant to be equal-parts everything, so standard recipes tend not to deviate):

1. One ounce of Campari
2. One ounce of sweet vermouth
3. One ounce of prosecco (add more as you wish)
4. One orange for garnish or dropped in as a slice

The standard recipes are all equal parts, though you can add more prosecco as you see fit.

The prosecco is light and sparkling, so it increases how refreshing the drink tastes — but it doesn't offset the bitter citrus negroni taste as effectively as a liquor might. If you love bitterness, this is fantastic news for you.

If you want something sweeter and lighter, you'll need to add more prosecco to dilute the sweet vermouth and Campari — which is what I did.

Finally, I added the orange, which also helped offset some of the Campari's bitterness.

Once I added the orange wedge and played with the ratios until there was probably two-thirds of the light and fizzy prosecco in the glass, drinking it felt like being transported into a mid-summer afternoon — sitting on a sidewalk cafe, leisurely people-watching.

As some taste-testers have noted, it also grows on you. At first, the bitterness is a punch to your taste buds. Like other negronis, as that initial shock dulled, it tasted more balanced.

This was an easy cocktail to make — and I'll likely make it in batches for summertime soirees. It's also especially good for fans of the similarly refreshing-meets-bitter Aperol spritz. I'd order it at a bar — though I'll probably stick to heavier, smokier mezcal negronis for the winter.

Given the 11 million views of the original TikTok, and the app's blushing fixation on D'Arcy's pronouncement of "sbagliato... with prosecco in it," the negroni sbagliato is an early contender for the drink of the season.