Wine Selection in Buford Highway Eateries a Challenge?

Have you ever struggled with wine selections while trying out some of the more authentic foreign cuisine along Buford Highway?

A writer with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution faced that issue recently:

One of the easiest paradigms of wine pairing is to pick a wine from the region where the food originates. That’s easy if the dish is beef Bourguignon (a red Burgundy will do nicely) or Alsatian-style coq au vin (a dry, luscious Alsatian riesling is just the ticket).

But what if you’re at the table at (a Bangladeshi restaurant located at 3375 Buford Highway, Atlanta) and a smiling Mirza Ameen, the owner, arrives with the house specialty: lamb vindaloo? One doesn’t find too many wineries within 3,000 miles of Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital.

Now, what I know about wine is pretty much limited to the rantings of Paul Giamatti in Sideways, so I pretty much don't know at all what this guy is talking about. But I figured some of our readers might be more discerning about this stuff.

The writer suggests a few wines to drink with spicy food if you're chilling out in a Buford Highway joint: an Austrian grüner veltliner (might as well be Chinese) or Alsatian gewürztraminers (nope) or a 2010 Domaine Pichot Vouvray (might as well be French... and it is.)

While eating spicy foods along Buford Highway, have you guys run into similar wine issues? What did you do? Tell us in the comments section below.