For the following recipe, we will need a red Marsala or 'ruby' variety: Red grape varieties: Pignatello, Calabrese, Nerello Mascalese, Nerod'Avola. I found it at a wine merchant. It has nothing to do with the almond-flavored Marsalas or the Marsala with eggs, which are digestifs and used in pastries. For this recipe, I found a fine DOC Marsala with 17% alcohol by volume. Very pleasant, refined, and aromatic, it has aged for at least 1 year in oak barrels.