"Chinese tea by class"

I have found only one YELLOW tea: Hua Shan Huang Ya Yellow Tea is available at Todd & Holland

Todd & holland carries a large range of teas, and it can be really enjoyable to visit their shop.

H.L.Law

That's not contradictory. As the site says, the process is different.

Black tea :

-leaves are heated

-leaves are massaged by hand*

-time of maturation in high temperature

-leaves are massaged by hand*

-leaves are dried

Red tea :

-leaves are displayed on baskets

-leaves are massaged by hand*

-fermentation

-leaves are dried

Kuri

I doubt that you are going to find any yellow tea for under $15 per quarter pound, and you'd be lucky to find that, with the US tea market as it is.

What I'd advise is to try a sample of something, which is usually not too expensive (all of the following sources offer a sample size). And no, I have no affiliation with any of the following, save that I've ordered tea from all of them with no problems yet.

Holy Mountain offers the most economical yellow tea I've so far seen, for $18 per 1/4 lb.

Ten Tea (aka Ten Ren) offers one yellow tea as well:

Imperial Tea Court offers three (!) yellows, none of which sells for under $30 per 1/4 lb. Even the 1oz. samples usually run over $15.

I wish I could discuss the relative merits of these teas, but unfortunately I'm as ignorant of yellows as you are. Hopefully someone will try one and tell us.

Good luck,

ZBL

"Red Tea" (Hong Cha) is what we call Black Tea here in the west.

What they call "Black Tea" (Hei Cha) in China, Pu-Erh being the most common example, is a class that can brew up to a very dark tea and improves with age. The only other members of this class I can think of are Liu Bao and Liu An, although there are probably more.

Hope that helps,

ZBL