Adding honey to wine

I saw a recipe in which honey was added pre-carboy stage. Has anyone done this? I also saw one in which raisins were added to the must. These recipes were for crabapple or apple wine.

Ahhhhhhhh Lilrob, you are going so ooo way behind my expertise line now But, I will try to look it up. Perhaps -in the meanwhile- someone else on this board has experience with it and will react

Lilrob-
Sure you can add honey to wine, it can increase alcohol content in the primary stage. It's the same as if you were making Amarone and added corn sugar to bring up the brix during primary ferm at about 1.10 to bring it up to 1.25 or so to feed the yeast and increase alcohol content.
Usually raisins are added to the must of fruit wines in lieu of yeast nutrient and acid blends. Grapes naturally have what yeast needs and it adds complexity to wine when you use either raisins or red or white grape concentrate in fruit wine recipes.

Dgreene,
Always the one in the know. Thank goodness someone knows what they are doing. I understand raisins now. I have no need then to add them. I guess I was wrong about the honey stage. I re-read the recipe and it is added after the the primary fermentation. Pre-secondary the honey is added to some of the wine and then put back into the carboy to fermentate longer. The recipe stated that if you wanted a more sweeter wine add honey a couple of more times each time you rack the wine. I have not taken an acid sugar test. I don't have the tools needed. I am also a little confused about the directions. I would prefer to see it done. I'm not much of a chemist.
I do want to learn that part of it. It seems to be important.

The chemistry is pretty simple. Your yeast needs just what you need basically, nutrients and sugar. Sugar is not enough, but some foods have nutrients already like grapes, and some don't, like crabapples so you need to add nurtient.

The acids etc are more for taste and longevity, can be adjusted later to taste, but the fermentation does extract more flavor if the acid content is correct.