  The minimization of the Nambu-Goto action for a surface whose contour defines
a circular Wilson loop of radius a placed at a finite value of the coordinate
orthogonal to the boundary is considered. This is done for asymptotically AdS
spaces. The condensates of even dimension $n=2$ through $10$ are calculated in
terms of the coefficient of $a^{n}$ in the expansion of the on-shell subtracted
Nambu-Goto action for small $a$
  The subtraction employed is such that it presents no conflict with conformal
invariance in the AdS case and need not introduce an additional infrared scale
for the case of confining geometries. It is shown that the UV value of the
condensates is universal in the sense that they only depends on the first
coefficients of the difference with the AdS case.
