New Balance 991v2 UK "Grenadine"
Retail: $270 | Style Code: U991VO2
Release Date: April 16th, 2026
New Balance 991v2 Made in UK "Grenadine"
The 991v2 finds its warmest colorway yet. The New Balance 991v2 Made in UK "Grenadine" arrives as part of the Vibrant Chroma pack — a colorway drawn from the rich, red-tinted orange of the bar syrup it takes its name from, a color that sits somewhere between fire and fruit, between something consumed and something that burns. On the 991v2's layered, architecturally complex upper, grenadine does not feel like a departure from the silhouette's character. It feels like the color the shoe was waiting for someone confident enough to apply.
The vivid orange premium suede commands the mudguard, eyestays, heel, and side panels with the saturated warmth of a palette chosen without hesitation — a "Fire Whirl" that moves across the upper's dominant surfaces at full intensity rather than filtered through any instinct toward restraint. Beneath the suede overlays, a slightly darker orange mesh provides the base layer, the tonal variation between the two adding depth and visual texture that keeps the color story from ever reading as flat — the 991v2's famously complex layered construction doing exactly what it was built to do, turning material and color into a conversation rather than a statement. Muted grey arrives at the oversized N logos, laces, tongue branding, heel tabs, and forefoot overlays with the composed authority of the color that has always grounded the New Balance palette — the grey not competing with the orange but clarifying it, the way the right neutral sharpens everything it frames. A cream and off-white midsole carries the cushioning stack underfoot, the FuelCell full-length foam and ENCAP stability technology and ABZORB SBS pods delivering the lifted, responsive, all-day comfort that the 991v2's update over the original most meaningfully advanced. A black rubber outsole with a discreet blue FuelCell panel finishes the build from the ground up.
Made in Flimby, Cumbria with the unhurried precision that New Balance's UK manufacturing has represented for decades, the "Grenadine" is the 991v2 at its most seasonally appropriate and its most materially assured simultaneously — a spring colorway with the construction weight of a shoe built to outlast the season that named it. Fire and water. Heat and craft. The 991v2 holds both.